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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better

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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

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Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

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When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?

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Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

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The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

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Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.

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Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart.

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There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

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In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.

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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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He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

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