Maya Angelou Quotes
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'Maya Angelou
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky -
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke -
The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster -
In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
Ramez Naam -
Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
Damon Wayans
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
Edmund White -
Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
Fat Joe -
These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
Yvonne Strahovski -
What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
Sam Shepard -
I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
Valerie Bertinelli
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I'm happy people look at me as a role model.
Lara Stone -
People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'
Wanda Sykes -
What started it all was the Kanye album, 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.' We started listening to that and just fell in love with it, fell in love with his production style.
Andrew Dost Fun. -
You never know what an artist is going to create next.
Kesha -
Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.
Lisa Kristine -
I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
Amy Purdy
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One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
Odette Annable -
With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.
Peter Gabriel Genesis -
The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'
Maya Angelou