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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it

Want Great Love Sacrifice Whatever
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

Develop Courage Pick Weight
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I do my best because I’m counting on you counting on me.

Best Count Counting Because
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Best Better Know Until
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Develop Courage Stand Enough
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Alone Enough Prove Anybody
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Encounter Defeat Must Many
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Desire Reach Heart Wise
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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Children Read Simple Gratitude
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When you know you are of worth, you don’t have to raise your voice, you don’t have to become rude, you don’t have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn’t have to protest.

Worth Raise Voice Rude
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

Goal Love Pursue Instead
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I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road.

Road Comfortable Ahead Destination
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I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”.

Stand Responsibility Somebody Surprise
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

World Love Young Grab
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Right Possibility Invent Daily
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If one has courage, nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Courage Dim Light Shine
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Believe Important Single Dare
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I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Change Happen Refuse Reduce
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud.

Prepare Rainbow Cloud Somebody
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I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Seem Today Better Tomorrow
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To develop courage you have to start developing courage as you do any other muscle. You have to start with small things and build it up.

Develop Courage Start Muscle
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Angry Bitter Cancer Host
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Weda yansh face east or west, na still back e go dey.

Weda Yansh East West
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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you… yet, someone survived… You can do anything you choose to do.

Hurt Hungry Beaten Rape
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When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

Forgive Free Better Brighter
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We need to not be in denial about what we’ve done, what we’ve come through. It will help us if we all do that.

Help Done Through Denial
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love Great Hope Laugh
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Na for daytime dem dey find black goat.

Daytime Goat Black Na
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
Child Candy Library Best
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ‘I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

Nature Mercy Snow Bikini
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
Apartment Because Casually Cost
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life Great Dance Song
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.

Smile People Love Home
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We are only as blind as we want to be.
Only Want Blind Are
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You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self.

End Forgive Other Real
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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Grace Lake Water Door
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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Flesh Blood Hunger Set
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If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Life Save Own First
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Listen Hear Voice God
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Heart Hidden Seek God
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Alas the last of the great Titans… The great one who pricked himself on a senticous bush as he pushed for the freedom of his people from oppression… An epitome of sophronization…We shall not cry, rather we will celebrate a life truly well lived…

Great Titan Pricked Freedom
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A celebration of democracy or a deprecable apotheosis of an hemorrhaging plutocracy, cascading into a mobocracy with all the ossifying proclivities of a kakistocracy? With our “democracy” enveloped in a paraplegic crinkum-crankum, we must all rise up to bring to focal hiceps and biceps, Nigeria’s “Pluto-mobo-kakistocracy”…. Certainly not democracy!

Celebration Democracy Deprecable Apotheosis
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

Mother Always Intolerant Ignorance
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You listen with interest. That gives some sense of confidence to the speaker.

Listen Interest Sense Confidence
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I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me – I didn’t know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn’t know it then, and I know more now.

Poem Back Write Surprise
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I’ve learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

Learn Great Gift Give
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I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Life Give Second Chance
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