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/ page 1102 of 1205 /If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
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I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
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Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
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Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
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Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
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If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said 'No.'
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I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.
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I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
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My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
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