I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
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It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was. It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.Maya Angelou
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
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i believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare
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My life ain't heaven
but it sure ain't hell.
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