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"Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'"
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"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
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"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises."
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"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."
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"To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole."
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"Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'"
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"The ancient paused for a moment, as if his strength were failing. Yet I sensed that there was more to tell. Looking deep into my eyes, he whispered: 'The Gond kingdoms have fallen, their people live dispersed in poverty: the teak trees and the jungles have been cleared... but the importance of the Gonds must not be forgotten!"
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"We can all receive the gifts of our unique ancestry and harness them to forge a path of joy and healing."
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"I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots."
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"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."
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"For walk where we will, we tread upon some story."
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"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
Courage
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
Humility
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
Wisdom
"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
Education
"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
Inspirational
"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
Life
"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
Attitude
"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."
Success
"The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind."
Creativity
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
Wisdom
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