Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes

#1. Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

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#2. Race, redemption and healing - that's my thing.

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#3. I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

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#4. People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

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#5. Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

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#6. The important thing is not to point a finger at flaws but to attempt to correct them!

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#7. African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

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#8. You live your life between your ears.

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#9. To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

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#10. Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

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#11. When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

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#12. A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.

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#13. I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

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#14. As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

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#15. My color is my joy and not my burden...

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#16. The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

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#17. I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.

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#18. His eyesight wasn't as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.

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#19. The shame is in not improving when you have the opportunity!

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