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"We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings."
"Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives."
"No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots."
"I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something."
"You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '"
"This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing."
"At our best, we are all teachers"
"My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom."
"When we know better, we do better."
"The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think."
"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up."
"Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible."
"Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace."
"All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market."
"Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!"
"Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity."
"Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone."
"Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!"
"Life loves the liver of it."
"Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear."