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  • I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Christian Quotes , Mother Quotes
  • Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Wall Quotes , Ignorance Quotes
  • Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Mean Quotes , Men Quotes