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We have a very short window of opportunity to make real changes in advance of when the real fiscal storm hits, and we're continuing to make things worse instead of better.


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MAYA ANGELOU I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
MAYA ANGELOU I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
MAYA ANGELOU I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war ec...
MAYA LIN Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
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