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"It is Satan's purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts . . . The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong."

"In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a cupid like that child."
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"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."


"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."


"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."


"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."


"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."


"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."


"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
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