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An American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
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People will never forget how you made them feel.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives meaning.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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All great achievements require time.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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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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The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
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Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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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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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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