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Oprah Winfrey: Follow your instincts....

Oprah Winfrey: Follow your instincts....

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Source: In The...

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Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

I praise loudly, I blame softly

Source: Letter, 23 Aug 1794.
-- Catherine the...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

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Rosalynn Carter: A leader takes...

Rosalynn Carter: A leader takes...

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Source: In My Soul Looks Back,...

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Ntozake Shange: I am gonna...

Ntozake Shange: I am gonna...

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock...

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Aphra Behn: One hour of...

Aphra Behn: One hour of...

One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on.


Source: In An...

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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

Emily Dickinson: A word is...

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


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Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.


Source: Good...

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Eliza Cook: Whom do we...

Eliza Cook: Whom do we...

Whom do we dub as Gentleman?
The Knave, the fool, the brute --
If they but own full tithe of gold,
and Wear a...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: The heart of...

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it...

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Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the...

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Candice Bergen: When are you...

Candice Bergen: When are you...

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

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Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we...

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Ruth Draper: Aren't the artists...

Ruth Draper: Aren't the artists...

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? . . . I don't see how he kept his canvas...

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Maggie Smith: What was wrong...

Maggie Smith: What was wrong...

What was wrong with those people tonight? Never have I heard such a cacophony of coughs before! Is there an epidemic?...

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Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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Anne Sullivan: People seldom see...

Anne Sullivan: People seldom see...

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is...

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Barbara Jordan: What the people...

Barbara Jordan: What the people...

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

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Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the...

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