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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

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You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.

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We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.

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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

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Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.

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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

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You never get over the fear of writing.

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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

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Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into the palms of your hands. Mold it into the shape of your most Private need. Sculpt it into The image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts Each new hour holds new chances For a new beginning.

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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

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I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

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