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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel."

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Susan Downey Producer, Actress
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"We've been playing a lot with television. We have some shows set up and then some new shows that are about to be set up. That's gonna be kind of a fun thing for us as producers."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair."

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