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Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

Whoopi Goldberg: I believe that...

I believe that parts of people like John Garfield and Moms Mabley, the parts of them that I needed to be able to do...

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Sandra Bernhard: A remembrance can...

Sandra Bernhard: A remembrance can...

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did...

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Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Source: In What's Whoopi...

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Shirley Temple Black: Our whole way...

Shirley Temple Black: Our whole way...

Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

Edna St Vincent Millay: I find it's...

I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.

Source:...

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Beth Henley: There are probably...

Beth Henley: There are probably...

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, Hello, how do you do?...

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Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

Janet Erskine Stuart: All sorts of...

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

Source:...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Source: Hope.
-- Georgia Douglas...

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Lynda Barry: Love will make...

Lynda Barry: Love will make...

Love will make a way out of no way.

Source: Big Ideas, 1983.
-- Lynda Barry,...

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Grandma Moses: . . ....

Grandma Moses: . . ....

. . . daydreams, as it were . . . I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different...

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Alice Duer Miller: Men are too...

Alice Duer Miller: Men are too...

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . ....

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Sarah Knowles Bolton: I like the...

Sarah Knowles Bolton: I like the...

I like the man who faces what he must,
With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fights the daily battle...

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Rita Dove: What's invisible<br>sings, and...

Rita Dove: What's invisible
sings, and...

What's invisible
sings, and we bear witness.


Source: The Hill Has Something to...

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Audre Lorde: There are no...

Audre Lorde: There are no...

There are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten...

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Muriel Rukeyser: However confused the...

Muriel Rukeyser: However confused the...

However confused the scene of our life appears,
however torn we may be who now do face that scene,
it can be...

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Letitia Landon: Were it not...

Letitia Landon: Were it not...

Were it not better to forget
Than to remember and regret?


Source: From an...

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Ntozake Shange: Our society allows...

Ntozake Shange: Our society allows...

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: One ship drives...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: One ship drives...

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that flow.
'Tis the set of sails and not...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: So many gods,...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: So many gods,...

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the...

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