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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

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Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

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When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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