"We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance"
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library"
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"We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else."
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"If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen."
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"The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story."
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"A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing."
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"If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self."
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"Don't bring negative to my door."
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"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!"
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"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."
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"A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart."
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"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."
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"If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?"
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"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere."
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"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."
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"Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart."
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"Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader."
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"But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams."
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"People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel."
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