The one hand trying to wash itself is a pitiful spectacle, but when one hand washes the other, power is increased, and it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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More Quotes from Maya Angelou
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.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.
Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?