You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
From Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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