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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intellige...more

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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

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I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtu...more

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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 sustain myself with the love of family.

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There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

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We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, car...more

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Segregation shaped me education liberated me.