Maya Angelou Quotes
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'Maya Angelou
Quotes to Explore
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder -
Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
Mackenzie Davis -
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'
Ramez Naam -
We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
Naomi Wolf -
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
Sam Abell
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
Taylor Sheridan -
We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
Damon Galgut
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
Taylor Momsen -
I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
Lamar Odom -
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
J. Philippe Rushton -
Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
Natasha Bedingfield
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I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.
Dominick Cruz -
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Saint Augustine -
A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
Charles Bronson -
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Haile Selassie -
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
Maya Angelou