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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.
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The potential for greatness lives within us all.
My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.
By the time I was 12 I was challenging every boy in our neighborhood at running, jumping, everything.
What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.
I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
