We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas,
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