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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

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Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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

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If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

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

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Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

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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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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

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If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

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The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

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The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

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If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."

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