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"Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about."
"Facts can obscure the truth."
"Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are."
"I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees."
"Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me."
"A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer."
"The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming."
"Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce."
"Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams."
"If a person - any human being - is told often enough, "You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you", the person finally begins to believe it."
"jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear."
"Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility."
"Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up."
"Laugh as much as you can."
"Have enough courage to love."
"Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay."
"Look for the beauty in things."
"Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work."
"Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong."
"On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone."