My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.


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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
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The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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All great achievements require time.
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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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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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