I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Oprah Winfrey
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  1. Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God.

  2. The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.

  3. (On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

  4. The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

  5. God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

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