"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."
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"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else."
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"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
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"Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was"
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"If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud."
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."
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"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."
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"I believe that every person is born with talent."
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"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
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"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."
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"I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at."
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"I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up."
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"Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy."
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"You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great."
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"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
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"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."
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"Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better."
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"Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise."
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"A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend."
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