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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

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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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Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

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That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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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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Have enough courage to love.

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Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

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One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

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