If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good."Ĥ5. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. "What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. "Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it."Ĥ4. "There's a world of difference between truth and facts. "The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."Ĥ2. I must have done something great in another life."Ĥ1. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name."Ĥ0. We are who we are because they were who they were. "We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men. "I believe that every person is born with talent."ģ9. "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."ģ8. "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."ģ7. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."ģ6. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. It can happen to anybody at any time."ģ5. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."ģ4. "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life."ģ3. "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back."ģ2. "The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are."ģ1. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."ģ0. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. "I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. "It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."Ģ8. "Words mean more than what is set down on paper. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind."Ģ7. "All great achievements require time."Ģ5. "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."Ģ4. "A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."Ģ3. "The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."Ģ2. "It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."Ģ0. "I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me."ġ9. "The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."ġ8. "Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."ġ6. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."ġ4. "You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. We may not have enough courage to display it."ġ3. "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."ġ2. "Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."ġ1. "We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."ġ0. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."ĩ. "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."Ĩ. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. "If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."ħ. "My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."Ħ. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."ĥ. If you can't change it, change your attitude."Ĥ. "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."ģ. "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."Ģ.
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