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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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" Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything. "

" Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.' "

" I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me. "

" The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. "

" If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it. "

" 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. "

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

" The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. "

" 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. "

" Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. "

" 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. "

" 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 have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. "

" Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. "

" I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to. "

" There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. "

" My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still. "

" I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing. "

" I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. "

" In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. "

" Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. "

" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "

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

" If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first. "

" I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. "

" If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. "

" We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name. "

" On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden. "

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

" 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. "