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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
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"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you."

"You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for."

"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."

"There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."

"Love. And again, see I don't mean, I think love is that condition in the human spirit so profund, that it allows us to forgive, and it may be the energy which keeps the stars in the firmament, I'm not sure. It may be the energy which keeps the blood running smoothly through our veins. I'm not sure, but it's something beyond the explanation. It can be used for anything you can explain. Any good thing you can explain."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N."
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"Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy."
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