"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."

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Maya Angelou

#Inspiring Quotes #Persistence Quotes #People Quotes

“Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.”
“I think Carl Jung said, you know, I'm gonna paraphrase it badly, but, so much of what we fall in love with in other people is a potential in us that's ready to be realized. We're projecting onto them this amazing thing, but really it's us, and we're very close to integrating it and claiming it. If we do claim it, then we can just love somebody for who they are with all their flaws, but if we don't take that projection back, then we keep wanting them to have that. Then you just realize we're all screwed, that's how it works.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I don't write music for critics or hipsters.Â I write for me.”
“I have been so blessed not only to talk about things that I want to talk about in my industry, but also to have a platform - and people want to hear about it. People want the change; people want the difference; people want to know what's going on. People want to see themselves in the industry that for so long has ostracized girls of my size.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.”
“But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.”

Source : "CNN Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, www.cnn.com. December 28, 2002.
“The future will be different if we make the present different.”

Source : Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.61, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”

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