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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

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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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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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Have enough courage to love.

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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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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

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When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.

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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

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This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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

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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

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There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

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

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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

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