"Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear."

-- Maya Angelou

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Body Quotes

“I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.”

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“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”
“Music is the ultimate teacher.”
“As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.”
“I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American experience. And now comes this fine meditation on his experience of coming to poetry, of making the poem and the months surrounding its making-a testament to the strength and significance of poetry in American culture, something not always seen or easily measured. Today Is For All of Us, One Today is a necessary intervention into the ongoing conversation about the role of poetry in public life.”
“I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.”
“It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.”

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