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Joan Rivers: People say that...

Joan Rivers: People say that...

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key...

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Joan Baez: Seeing you sleeping...

Joan Baez: Seeing you sleeping...

Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no...

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Alice Childress: . . ....

Alice Childress: . . ....

. . . the good old days. The only good days are ahead.

Source: Alice Childress, in...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: Knowledge is power,...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Knowledge is power,...

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Source: In Readers'...

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Frances Watkins Harper: What matters it...

Frances Watkins Harper: What matters it...

What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song.

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Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

Gwendolyn Brooks: It is brave...

It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.


Source: do not...

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Joanna Baillie: Words of affection,...

Joanna Baillie: Words of affection,...

Words of affection, howso'er express'd,
The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.


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Rita Dove: Poetry is language...

Rita Dove: Poetry is language...

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

Source: In The Quotable...

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Rita Dove: We tend to...

Rita Dove: We tend to...

We tend to be so bombarded with information. . . This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have...

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Maxine Kumin: To write about...

Maxine Kumin: To write about...

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of...

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Edith Nesbitt: It is wonderful...

Edith Nesbitt: It is wonderful...

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

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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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Janis Joplin: Audiences like their...

Janis Joplin: Audiences like their...

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Source: In Woman's Almanac, by...

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Ruth Etting: He just play...

Ruth Etting: He just play...

He just play chords
Like nobody can
They call him Sam
The old accordian man.


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Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Ruth Etting: Nothing else to...

Nothing else to do
but sit around and think about you
just think about you/that's all that I...

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Marian Anderson: There are many...

Marian Anderson: There are many...

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate,...

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Doris Day: Vulgarity begins when...

Doris Day: Vulgarity begins when...

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Source: In The Book of...

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Diana Ross: If I have...

Diana Ross: If I have...

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

Source: Secrets of a...

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Lauren Bacall: Imagination is the...

Lauren Bacall: Imagination is the...

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Source: In Lauren Bacall, By...

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Elizabeth Ashley: Absence does not...

Elizabeth Ashley: Absence does not...

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

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