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"Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality."
"It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made."
"When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."
"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"
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