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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.
I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places.
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.
Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.
I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.