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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage… — Maya Angelou
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. — Maya Angelou
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically,… — Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. — Maya Angelou
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… — Maya Angelou
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. — Maya Angelou
I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of… — Maya Angelou
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. — Maya Angelou
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. — Maya Angelou
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring… — Maya Angelou
You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us,… — Maya Angelou
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. — Maya Angelou
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries… — Maya Angelou
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth.… — Susan B. Anthony
Certainly I see the scientific view of the world as incompatible with religion, but that is not what is interesting about it. It is also… — Richard Dawkins
I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down… — Beyonce Knowles
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music. — Janet Jackson
I've never recorded anything I didn't like. — Aretha Franklin
I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing. — Amerie
One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds… — Janelle Monae
You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it. — Carly Simon
Ostwald was a great protagonist and an inspiring teacher. He had the gift of saying the right thing in the right way. When we consider… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
Everyday we see your heart and character, inspiring all of us to give more of ourselves.'You are the leader to take us from where we… — Beyonce Knowles
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet — Sarah Louise Delany
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin

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