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"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."
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"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
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Personal Development
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
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Personal Development
"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky."
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Personal Development
"In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision."
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Personal Development
"You try almost dying, being chased, thenhopping in a car with a complete (horny)stranger."
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"I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk."
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Personal Development
"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."
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"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."
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Personal Development
"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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Personal Development
"Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it."
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"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
Strength
"Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests."
Woman
"In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men."
Man
"Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our refusal to recognize those differences, and to examine the distortions which result from our misnaming them and their effects upon human behavior and expectation."
Observation
"I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain."
Survival
"We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid."
Activism
"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me."
Acceptance
"It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as parents. But that knowledge is necessary as the first step in the reassessment of power as something other than might, age, privilege, or the lack of fear. It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be strong if he doesn't feel, or if he wins."
Parenting
"Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside."
Expression
"DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem."
Individuality
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