"The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think."

-- Maya Angelou

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“I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me; we know not only how to achieve the best artistic results but how to attract the public and carry out the whole operation with carefully chosen collaborators. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.”
“I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.”
“Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.”
“The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.”

Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”
“Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.”
“Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.”
“I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.”
“Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save you so that you could cruise into paradise on a luxury liner; He saved you to prepare you to be of use in His kingdom. The moment you were born again, He enrolled you in His school of suffering. And every affliction, every trial, is another lesson in the curriculum.”

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