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"True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life."
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Personal Development
"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
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Personal Development
"The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul."
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Personal Development
"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
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Personal Development
"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
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Personal Development
"Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are."
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Personal Development
"Be awesome! Smile like a flower."
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Personal Development
"How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?"
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"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
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"The beauty of truth is in its simplicity."
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"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."
Life
"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."
Family
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
Violence
"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."
Poetry
"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."
Poetry
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice
"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
Attitude
"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
Poetry
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
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