"People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world."
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"I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment."
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"I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves."
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"I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings."
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"Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by."
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"Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all."
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"Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations."
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"In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists."
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"I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick."
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"The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all."
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"Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised."
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"I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could."
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"We have it in us to be splendid."
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"Having courage does not mean we are unafraid."
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"They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything."
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"Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt"
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"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"
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"People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant."
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"I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet."
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"Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time."
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