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"You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself."
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"Become Yourself."
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Personal Development
"Learn the techniques to open the Power of Your Heart, giving access to the infinite potential possibilities that truly exist for you."
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Personal Development
"When you live with dignity no man will ever take it. Live without it and every boy will steal it."
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Personal Development
"Until you believe in yourself, it does not matter how much you believe in God."
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Personal Development
"You made me laugh at your jokes.You made me cry at your criticism.You made me shout at your lies.Then I noticed how in every case someone else was present, hearing you without laughter or tears or anger.I alone reacted.I see now; you never made me laugh or cry or rage.I chose to find humor.I chose to take offense.I chose to feel scorned.The truth is, you never had power over me."
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"If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love."
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Personal Development
"You can take your power back and silence the criticism and lies NOW!"
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Personal Development
"The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can."
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Personal Development
"The power of turning your life around lays in your ability to unleash your personal powers to accomplish it."
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Personal Development
"You are in charge of your life and how great you become is up to you."
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"Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war."
Society
"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."
Equality
"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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