Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOUCourage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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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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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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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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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 main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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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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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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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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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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