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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."

"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."

"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."
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"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike."

"The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life."

"There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale."

"America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description."

"Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values."

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy."
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