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"The"b word and the "n word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison."
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"Words can't save you, but they can give you courage."
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Personal Development

"The mouth speaks from well spring of the heart."
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Personal Development

"Words, he knew, could scar."
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Personal Development

"Words are weapons of war."
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"Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out."
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"Words are seeds, you are what you've heard."
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"Words create. Know what you want to create before you speak."
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"A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond."
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"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
Emotional

"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."
Attitude

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
Life

"Nothing will work unless you do."
Motivational

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
Relationship

"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."
Leadership

"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."
Creativity

"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."
Identity

"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
Creativity

"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"
Morality
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