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Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew. They are what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm

— Cicely Tyson

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Six days before Christmas in 1924, I arrived with my thumb poked in my mouth and nary a strand of hair.

Just As I Am: A Memoir (2021)

"To thine on self be true." "Do that, and you’ll have no regrets."

Just stick with it. Just stick with it. There's always a reason why you keep going in the direction you chose to go in.

I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

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