Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOUBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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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 I still have a lot to learn.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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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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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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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.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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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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