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TYRA BANKS The reaction to me out on the stump was quite hostile.
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NOLAN BANKS Any mind that bears much wisdom, shares a body with a heart that bears many wounds.
NOLAN BANKS As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.
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NOLAN BANKS I'm tired of this rumor. It's something that's followed me forever,
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ERNIE BANKS In being human I was a part of this world, yet in being a soul I was apart from it all the same.
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JOSEPH BANKS Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics...
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RUSSELL BANKS Every woman has a story,
TYRA BANKS I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
MAYA LIN In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to li...
MAYA ANGELOU Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
MAYA ANGELOU Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper ...
MAYA ANGELOU Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to...
MAYA ANGELOU My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some com...
MAYA ANGELOU There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
MAYA ANGELOU Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
MAYA ANGELOU Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beau...
MAYA ANGELOU The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it ove...
MAYA ANGELOU In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church j...
MAYA ANGELOU I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when...
MAYA ANGELOU I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
MAYA ANGELOU If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their h...
MAYA ANGELOU I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
MAYA ANGELOU I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'...
MAYA ANGELOU I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
MAYA ANGELOU I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human bein...
MAYA ANGELOU I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only a...
MAYA ANGELOU Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been livi...
MAYA ANGELOU I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And ...
MAYA ANGELOU I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of '...
MAYA ANGELOU All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
MAYA ANGELOU All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible t...
MAYA ANGELOU I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
MAYA ANGELOU I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b...
MAYA ANGELOU Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to Californ...
MAYA ANGELOU The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
MAYA ANGELOU Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become u...
MAYA ANGELOU One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can...
MAYA ANGELOU I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w...
MAYA ANGELOU I got my own back.
MAYA ANGELOU If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will a...
MAYA ANGELOU I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'...
MAYA ANGELOU Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
MAYA ANGELOU I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
MAYA ANGELOU Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. Y...
MAYA ANGELOU We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a...
MAYA ANGELOU I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
MAYA ANGELOU During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You hav...
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you...
MAYA ANGELOU In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
MAYA ANGELOU Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,...
MAYA ANGELOU My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
MAYA ANGELOU If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!'...
MAYA ANGELOU When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and su...
MAYA ANGELOU Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a ...
MAYA ANGELOU Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
MAYA ANGELOU Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
MAYA ANGELOU While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ...
MAYA ANGELOU The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I d...
MAYA ANGELOU Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can ...
MAYA ANGELOU Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you w...
MAYA ANGELOU My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to ...
MAYA ANGELOU You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else...
MAYA ANGELOU Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
MAYA ANGELOU The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
MAYA ANGELOU Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
MAYA ANGELOU I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
MAYA ANGELOU If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacr...
MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
MAYA ANGELOU Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very...
MAYA ANGELOU I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its disple...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t...
MAYA ANGELOU To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what y...
MAYA LIN Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOU We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
MAYA ANGELOU The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
MAYA ANGELOU What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...
MAYA ANGELOU We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
MAYA ANGELOU The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...
MAYA ANGELOU I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will...
MAYA ANGELOU I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
MAYA ANGELOU When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
li...
MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...
MAYA ANGELOU Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African sa...
MAYA ANGELOU Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOU Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAYA ANGELOU I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU We need much less than we think we need.
MAYA ANGELOU The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOU What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise...
MAYA ANGELOU If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act o...
MAYA ANGELOU You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves the liver of it.
MAYA ANGELOU A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU ...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
MAYA ANGELOU We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
MAYA ANGELOU Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down,...
MAYA ANGELOU I believe that every person is born with talent.
MAYA ANGELOU A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's gre...
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