"Life loves the person who dares to live it."
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"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
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"I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me."
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"The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit."
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"Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery."
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"I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things."
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"Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?"
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"Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears."
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"Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension."
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"Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
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"Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."
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"I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all."
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"I wouldn't trade anything for my story now."
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"Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as."
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"The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."
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"If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it."
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"I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate."
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"Love recognizes no barriers."
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"I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed."
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"Shakespeare must be a black girl."
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