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"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
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"If you participate in a competition, you have a chance to lose. If you don't participate, you are already a loser."
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"Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act."
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"How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast."
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"Every problem is a new puzzle to be solved."
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"When faced with a hurdle then give it all you've got to jump over it because it can't be done in two stages."
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"It takes physical, spiritual and mental preparation to overcome the life challenges."
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"If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled."
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"Every problem is a new puzzle to solve."
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"This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down."
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"One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed."
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"Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else."
Ethnicity
"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
Knowledge
"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
Art
"Poetry is life distilled."
Life
"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
Work
"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
Love
"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
People
"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
Writing
"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
Life
"First fight. Then fiddle."
Fight
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