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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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All great achievements require time.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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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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One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.