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Her passion was never spent in public display.


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If they want to learn how to live life right
they ought to study me on Saturday night.
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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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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.
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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
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We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Maya Angelou

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Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
Virginia Foxx

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
Nassau William Senior

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
Marc Maron