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" A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. "
Black
Racism
Struggle
" Achievement brings its own anticlimax. "
Own
Achievement
Brings
" A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. "
Person
Young
Sight
" All great achievements require time. "
Require
Great
Achievements
" All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. "
Heart
Same
Great
" All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. "
Time
Child
Information
" All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. "
Incredible
Accomplish
Prepared
" All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided. "
I Am
Company
The Right Thing
" And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. "
Good
Looks
You
" Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. "
Book
Child
Habit
" As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. "
Men
Black
Women
" At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself. "
Waking Up
Myself
Up
" At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. "
Resistance
Life
Me
" At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family. "
Family
Life
Brother
" 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, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people. "
Smile
Time
American
" Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.' "
Meaning
Talking
Saying
" A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. "
Wishes
Enemy
Victim
" Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. "
Eats
Anything
Host
" Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. "
Anger
Cancer
Clean
" Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole. "
Down
People
Me
" Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. "
Talent
Children
Ignorance
" Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother. "
Cooking
Dishes
Like
" Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. "
Practice
You
Courage
" Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. "
Yourself
Small Things
Courage
" Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun! "
I Believe
Fun
Dare
" Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' "
Bring
You
Life
" During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. "
Bad
You
World
" Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely. "
Rude
Talk
Early
" Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. "
Easy
Damn
Writing
" Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. "
You
Life
Someone
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