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" There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. "

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" It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. "

" Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. "

" The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. "

Ninon de L'Enclos

" But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. "

" Your silence will not protect you. "

" A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. "

" It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. "

Robert W. Service

" Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. "

Michel de Montaigne

" The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. "

" Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. "

Thomas a Kempis

" I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine. "

Maximillian Degenerez

" Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. "

Boris Pasternak

" I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason. "

" Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. "

" Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. "

" We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. "

" When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. "

" The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. "

Francesco Guicciardini

" Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. "

" The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. "

" I shut my eyes in order to see. "

" There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. "

" I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. "

" A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. "

" If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? "

" I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell. "

" We adore chaos because we love to produce order. "

" The time is always right to do what is right. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. "