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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.

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My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

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It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

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I have forgiven myself; I'll make a change. Once that forgiveness has taken place you can console yourself with the knowledge that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure. Less pressure is crystal, less than that is coal, less than that is fossilized leaves or plain dirt. Pressure can change you into something quite precious, quite wonderful, quote beautiful and extremely hard.

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Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.

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