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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

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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.

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I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 4th, 1928

Died: May 28th, 2014

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