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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas,
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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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I�ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
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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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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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