I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
MAYA ANGELOUWomen should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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