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"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."
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"I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect."
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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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"I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco."
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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."
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"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
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"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."
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"I like perfume and flowers."
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"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
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"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way."
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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."
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"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."
Learning
"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."
Identity
"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way."
Class
"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
"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."
Flowers
"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 made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."
People
"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 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
"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."
People
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