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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

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I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

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There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

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Act as if you are, and you will become such.

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Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

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One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

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We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

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Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

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I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

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The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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Work is love made visible.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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Make friends with angels.

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