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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're ...more

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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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There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give any...more

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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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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

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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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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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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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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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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little 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