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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."
"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
"He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks."
"When you consistently complain about the things you are gifted to do, check your motivation."
"Don't shout my friend, no one gives you the shit unless you make them."
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"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
"I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive."
"If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?"
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."
"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
"When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich."
"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
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