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The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

Bebe Moore Campbell

My color is my joy and not my burden.
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Burden Color Joy
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years.
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Healing Recovery Years
When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.
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Asking Country People
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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Color People Race Society
Knowing who you are begins in the mind.
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Being Knowing Mind
Discipline is the servant of inspiration.
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Discipline Inspiration Servant
The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL

Announcement Great Possible Public Radio Shameful Treatment
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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Emotional Inspirational Waiting
Can’t we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans.
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Country Destigmatze Nation National Process Target
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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Country Place Racism Thinking
Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.
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Key Recovery Soul
The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.
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Music Rain Sunshine
Race, redemption and healing – thats my thing.
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Healing Race Redemption
You live your life between your ears.
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Ears Life Live Math

The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

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The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It’s not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.

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