"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman."
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"We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community."
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"All great acheivements require time."
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"It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally."
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"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
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"Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights."
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"First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love."
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"Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you."
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"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."
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"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."
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"Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins."
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"You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them."
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"We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God."
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"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric."
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"Forgive yourself - no one else will."
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"In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me."
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"We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed."
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"Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud."
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"Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud."
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"Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth."
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