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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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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 love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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Whining is just unbecoming.

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I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

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You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

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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 ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

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Poetry gave me back my voice.

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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

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Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

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Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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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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If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

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