Maya Angelou
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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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.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
I know why the caged bird sings.
If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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