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"Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy."
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"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."
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"Tomorrow is the next step in life-not the next stop in life."
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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."
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"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."
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"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."
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"Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest."
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"Convert your knowledge into product."
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"Your challenge in life does not define you but only refines you."
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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."
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"A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
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"I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man."
Relationship

"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."
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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."
Writing

"Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live."
Nature

"She knew Paul D was adding something to her life-something she wanted to count on but was scared to... His waiting eyes and awful human power. The mind of him that knew her own. Her story was bearable because it was his as well-to tell, to refine and tell again. The things neither knew about the other-the things neither had word-shapes for-well, it would come in time."
Relationship

"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
Justice

"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
Leadership

"Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers."
Identity

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
Love
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