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"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
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"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."
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"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."
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"I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now."
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"You have to be humble when you're dealing with God."
God
"I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is."
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"When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that."
People
"I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice."
Listening
"Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives."
Power
"When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became."
Life
"God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always."
God
"There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college."
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"To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing."
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