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"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."
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"We pull back our society when we tell people to only pray for miracles."
"Every Christian has the chance to become an outstanding person."
"Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land."
"Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens."
"In the body is tremendous strength, in the mind is brilliant potential, in the heart is extraordinary influence, and in the soul is remarkable power."
"There is a latent energy in each of us, in all areas of our lives."
"The secret of real prosperity in the church is to teach God's people principles of economic empowerment."
"If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world."
"Your inner light is your inner power."
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"In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free."
"Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities."
"If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent."
"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."
"I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly."
"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
"I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then."
"I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother."
"It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out."
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