I didn't have any looks, I didn't have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, "I don't have anything." If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].

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I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.

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No matter what you do or say, there's nothing that you can do to make people understand you.

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That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

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To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.- Nina Simone

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It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy. ― Habeeb Akande

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There is a role and function for beauty in our time. - Tadao Ando

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Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected. — Laverne Cox

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It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

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