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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used ...more

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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shinto...more

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remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong....more

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My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguis...more