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" I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. "
Maya Angelou
Cure
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" I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. "
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" It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race. "
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" I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change. "
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" I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it. "
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" Achievement brings its own anticlimax. "
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" All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. "
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" We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! "
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" Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. "
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" The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. "
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" Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger. "
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" Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. "
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" My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. "
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" Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. "
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" Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. "
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" I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do. "
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" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "
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Street
Always
" Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness. "
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" I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. "
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" I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. "
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" I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient. "
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" 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. "
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" What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me. "
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" To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. "
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" The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. "
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" I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that. "
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" I became the kind of parent my mother was to me. "
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" 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. "
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" All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. "
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" I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. "
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" Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. "
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