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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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I dont think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. – Oprah Winfrey

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I am a woman in process. Im just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull. – Oprah Winfrey

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Experience
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey

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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. – Bill Frist

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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

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And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. – Toni Morrison

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Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished — that of man also. – Simone de Beauvoir

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