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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

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Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

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I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

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Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

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I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

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I know something better is on the road for me.

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Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.

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