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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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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. – Oprah Winfrey

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Fear
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What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. – Oprah Winfrey

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Love
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Its much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. Thats the truth. – Oprah Winfrey

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Truth
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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. – W.E.B. DuBois

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Black History

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: “The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.” – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. – Booker T. Washington

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. – Chinese Proverb

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Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. – Dan Greenburg

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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. – Adam Smith

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