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You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage ...more

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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.

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The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virt...more

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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to ...more

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening t...more

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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

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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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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebod...more

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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and t...more

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.