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"He can't value you more than you value yourself."
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"When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it."
"You are your shining star. Arise and shine your star."
"Fear is nothing but a thought. So try not to become its victim. You were born to be the captain of your own thoughts."
"The power to shape your destiny lies in your strength to take control of your thoughts, abilities and actions."
"And she wanted to be free. It wasn't Mr. Brumley she wanted; he was but a means - if indeed he was a means - to an end. The person she wanted, the person she had always wanted - was herself. Could Mr. Brumley give her that? Would Mr. Brumley give her that? Was it conceivable he would carry sacrifice to such a pitch as that?..."
"Don't live by your thoughts only; live by your words also. Whatever plans you think about, affirm it in your mouth first, declare it and you will succeed in working it out! Words can be powerful!"
"Intuition is a woman's gift that comes packaged in responsibility. If we don't change the world for good, who will?"
"Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day."
"Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you will no longer use disempowered language about yourself, and nor will you ever negatively define yourself by what has occurred in your past."
"There is a need for promoting women's sexual agency in today's society, because if it wasn't an issue, terms such as 'female sexual empowerment' would be made redundant. The fact that we merely have this vocabulary is indicative of that."
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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."
"At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough."
"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
"I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons."
"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."
"In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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