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"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."
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"Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms."
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"Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?"
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"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
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"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."
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"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!""
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"I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."
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"My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white."
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"There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves."
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"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."
People
"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."
Identity
"I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished."
Life
"I really do hate to sing."
Hate
"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else."
Hollywood
"I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were."
Time
"I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody."
Credit
"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."
Television
"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."
Ability
"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."
Time
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