One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.
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I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.Wilma Mankiller
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But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for.
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A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
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The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.
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