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Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.