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- Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
- There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
- All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
- I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
- In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
- I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the…
- Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just…
- Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven…
- I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother,…
- It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light…
- Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself…
- Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is…
- I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence…
- That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to…
- Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail…
- When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action,…
- Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
- Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a…
- I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we…
- I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
- I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way…
- No one has ever become poor from giving.
- A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach…
- remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do…
- Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me.…
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