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"It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts."
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"Self-confident people Know that obstacles are only temporary setbacks."
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"Do you ever feel like you have been stopped dead in your tracks? That you have fallen and can't get up? Or like you are stuck in a rut or wading in muck? Paralysis, inertia, and being stuck, can be disempowering and disabling. What is it going to take for you to restart your engines and get moving again?"
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"A seed does not die because you buried it, neither does a warrior."
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"In the furnace of affliction, we are refined and purified."
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"Do not give up. Be strong!"
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"A star does not cease to be a star because it is surrounded by darkness."
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"When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed."
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"Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap."
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"It is not the loss that makes you a loser, but it is how you respond to it."
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"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless."
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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
"For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event."
Politics
"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
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