Lucille Clifton Quotes

All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

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• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

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• I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.

  

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• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

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• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  

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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

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• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

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• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

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• I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

  

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• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

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• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

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• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

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• I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

  

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• A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible.

  

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• The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies.

  

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• All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

  

  Lucille Clifton
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