The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
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And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never ...
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We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We ...
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He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?I blow my nose. take off they pants, I say, and men look like frogs to me. No matt...
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Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.
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A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. B...
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What will people say, you running off to Memphis like you don't have a house to look after?Shug say, Albert. Try to think like you got some sense. Why...
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Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that sea...
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Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you t...
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Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.You saying God vain? I ast.Naw,...
