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" I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything. "
Ruby Dee
Anything
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" God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear. "
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" I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment. "
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" I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist. "
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" It is so calming, marriage. "
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" The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. "
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" The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. "
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" Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit. "
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" Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we're all creatures of the same God. "
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" I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do. "
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" My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations. "
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" I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books. "
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" I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on. "
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" I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it. "
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" One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist. "
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