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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

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But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

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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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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

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We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

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I have great respect for the past.

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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

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I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

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Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

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I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

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