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No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
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The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.
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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."
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If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
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Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.
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Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.
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I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.
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The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.
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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.
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You are responsible for your life. It doesn't matter what your Mama did. It doesn't matter what your Daddy didn't do. You are responsible for your life.
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