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| Effective action is always unjust. | | Action | |
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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. | | Country | |
| God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope. | | Hope; Moments | |
| 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, | | Uncategorized | |
| He loved her. ... she can be talking to me about regular things but when she mentions Martin, her voice always falls a little bit and you can sense the intimacy. ... The sweetness of that relationship was always evident. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Here on the pulse of this new day,/ You may have the grace to look up and out/ And into your sister's eyes, into/ Your brother's face, your country/ And say simply,/ Very simply,/ With hope,/ Good Morning. | | Uncategorized | |
| History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. | | Uncategorized | |
| How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! | | Heroism | |
| I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me. | | Uncategorized | |
| I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted | | Uncategorized | |
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| I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. | | Uncategorized | |
| I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories." | | Death and dying; Questioning | |
| I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no | | Electricity; Heart; Talent | |
| I believe that every person is born with talent. | | Belief; Talent | |
| i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare | | Uncategorized | |
| I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of wat | | Compassion; Innocence | |
| i can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it. | | Uncategorized | |
