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- I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
- As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked…
- Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't…
- I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like…
- I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the…
- Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting…
- Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to…
- I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do…
- I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my…
- To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the…
- I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and…
- As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not…
- What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all…
- You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them,
- A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach…
- People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is…
- I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
- Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
- Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.
- Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to…
- We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre…
- People will never forget how you made them feel.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster