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

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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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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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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they...more

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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black,...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