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. . . the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

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What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

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If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

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Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

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A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

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