"If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg."

-- Victoria Gray Adams

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“We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.”
“If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.”
“I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.”
“That bumper sticker everyone has down in Philadelphia, the one that says, 'Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent,' really isn't true. God couldn't have made all the saves that Parent made against us.”
“The journey itself is going to change you, so you donâ€™t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.”
“Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.”
“No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future”
“I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.”

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