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"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"We are all capable!"
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."
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"So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime."
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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."
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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me."
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"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
People

"As much as I try, when I open my mouth, Lena comes out, And I get so mad."
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"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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