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I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

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It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

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All great acheivements require time.

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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

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No not me go find someone else to bring down

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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

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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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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

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

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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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Poetry gave me back my voice.

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Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

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There is no place where God is not.

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