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- My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated…
- Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
- For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he…
- 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 speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
- The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
- We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
- Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine…
- Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love…
- 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,…
- If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective…
- It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more…
- 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…
- A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with…
- There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
- Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
- I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We…
- Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must…
- Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible…
- If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you…
- Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
- Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.
- I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that…
- But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.
- Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who…
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