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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.
I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.
Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.
I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.
Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.
Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.
How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.
Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.
It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does
Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!
Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?