Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
From Maya Angelou
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Nothing will work unless you do.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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