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When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- Dorothy Height, (Mar 24 1912-2010), US activist; She spent a lifetime of service with the YWCA and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; president of the National Council of Negro Women since 1957.

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