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.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
Wouldn'
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me, A hive of honey bees. I say, It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
Men themselves have wondered What they see in me. They try so much But they can't touch My inner mystery. When I try to show them They say they still can't see. I say, It's in the arch of my back, The sun of my smile, The ride of my breasts, The grace of my style. I'm a woman
Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
Now you understand Just why my head's not bowed. I don't shout or jump about Or have to talk real loud. When you see me passing It ought to make you proud. I say, It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
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I�ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.
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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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Success… Is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas,
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'
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A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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