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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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Personal Development
"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
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"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
Emotional
"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."
Attitude
"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
Life
"Nothing will work unless you do."
Motivational
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
Relationship
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
Light
"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."
Leadership
"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
Creativity
"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."
Identity
"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
Creativity
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