"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."

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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 capable of greatness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Greatness, Potential, Strength, Power

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Ability, Act, Advice, Profit

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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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?"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Ability, Talent, Focus, Mind, Stability

"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Divine, Mission, Power

"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Ability, Effort, Limit, Performance

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Ability, Education, Talent, Body

"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ability, Power, Spirit, Faith, Strength

"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."

Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist

Ability, America, Cunning, Fact

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Ability, Job

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"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

"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."

Peace

"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 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

"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

Nationality

"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."

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"We are capable of greatness."

"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

"You have divine abilities for a great mission."

"What I do I do very well and what I don't do well I don't do at all."

"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

"We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit."

"The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting."

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

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"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."

"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."

"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."

"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."

"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."

"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."

"It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance."

"I really do hate to sing."

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

"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."