Maya Angelou Quotes
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.

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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.
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I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances.
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Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.
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As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
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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.