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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.

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One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

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

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

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Life loves the person who dares to live it.

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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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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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