Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise. - Ethel Waters

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So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

Ethel Waters

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Criticize, People, Praise

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I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

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If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

Bored, Fun, Life, Lonely

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

Asking, Boosted, Impossible, Pay, Salary, Want

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired.

Able, Book, Divinely, Inspired, Read, Wondered

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Childhood, Drinking, Lust, Mom

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Mark Shields

Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now. They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.

Having, Self, Smart, Trump, Two, Written

Wilfrid Sellars

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.

Categories, Construed, Intentionality, Speech, Thinking, Thoughtful

Milan Kundera

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

Entertainment, Facts, Nostalgic, Novelists, Thinking, True

Jodi Picoult

Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Children, Mother, Realized, Sat, School, Woman

Smokey Robinson