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My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.
I tell them that the most important aspect is to be yourself and have confidence in yourself.
Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.