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"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."

"It is a great joy to love and be loved."

"If you do everything with love and joy, you will find your soul."
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"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."


"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."


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


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


"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."


"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."


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


"The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat."
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