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" You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own. "

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" The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women. "

" I think all human beings have a godlike, divine power, only most of us don't tap into it. "

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" I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting. "

" Marriage is really an exciting adventure. "

" I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books. "

" Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary. "

" It's getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances. "

" My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations. "

" My stepmother wanted to be an actress. "

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" We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us. "

" 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. "

" Racism is a very insidious thing. It's dangerous to the psyche, to mind and body. It erodes the self-confidence. And I don't know how we get through it. "

" African-Americans have a lot to teach the world. "

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" Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.' "

" You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody. "

" Life can't die. It's a contradiction. "

" A nation's youths shouldn't be sent off to die. "

" Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe. "

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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. "