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“My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.”

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There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

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Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to…

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Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening…

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A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final…

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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they…

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This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped…

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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

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Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I…

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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

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So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings…

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We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

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O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

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“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is…

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“Aren't all marriages kind of gay? As a man, when you get marries, essentially what you're saying is 'I will never touch another woman…

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“I pause when the man at the register lays down a red carnation with my change, says quietly, “This is for you,” and turns…

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He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us…

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“Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.”

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“As my voice died away I became conscious of the voice of another woman two tables away. I couldn't hear what she was saying to her set-faced male companion, but the tone was the same as my own, the exact same plangent composite of need and recrimination. I stared at them. Their faces said it all: his awful detachment, her…

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“Ben’s dead,” he says not moving or breaking his stare. “And?” “Just thought you should know,” he says, looking at me in the eyes like he’s waiting for me to confess. “Thanks for waking me up to share the information,” I tell him. “Where’s Venessa?” “At home,” he says. “Needed to see you first, alone.” “Quit looking at me like…

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One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.

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“If you find yourself comparing your abilities, your work or your body to another woman, first observe and acknowledge what’s happening. Then calmly ask yourself, ‘What am I feeling, why has this been brought up and where has it come from?’ What in this other woman has triggered you? What parts of you are feeling vulnerable or threatened by her…

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