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" You're not supposed to go into business with the sole purpose of putting your neighbor out of business. This is not the United States of Corporate America. "

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" The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity. "

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

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

" It is so calming, marriage. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough. "

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

" My stepmother wanted to be an actress. "

" OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head. "

" Is it safe and sane to only have one political and economic system by which everyone in the world can live? Or can we explore and share? God never made one of anything. "

" 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. "

" I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately. "

" Black filmmakers - I'm grateful for them. "

" I'm an actor who appreciates direction. "

" You should always be prepared to win. But as much as I tell myself that, I've accepted another kind of role. Racism undercuts expectation, something like that. I'm not saying that to excuse myself from anything, but I've lived all this time, and things don't happen. "

" You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake! "

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

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

" Marriage, like love, is an aspiration. It's a process. "

" Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America. "

" We don't realize how much racism has tainted our self-image as human beings. "

" I don't remember, as a child, feeling a lack of anything. "

" I didn't have the kind of talent or personality that kept me dreaming about Hollywood. They don't hire little colored girls to do this or that. After I got that in my head, I took another direction. "

" 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. "

" 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. "