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" I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. "

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" The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. "

" One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. "

" I got my own back. "

" What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good. "

" How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times. "

" Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. "

" I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. "

" The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. "

" 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.' "

" I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. "

" Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. "

" There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. "

" 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. "

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" The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. "

" The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. "

" Nothing will work unless you do. "

" 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. "

" If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. "

" I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. "

" I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular. "

" Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart. "

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

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

" You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. "

" I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side. "

" If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart. "

" Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of. "

" I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient. "

" I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. "