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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

It wasn’t so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. “Away with you,” I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.