"In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise."

-- Maya Angelou

#Adversity Quotes #Race Quotes #Survival Quotes

“I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!”
“All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'”

Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.19, The Overlook Press
“Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.”

Source : "It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over: Making A Case For Condoms" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2012.
“Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is”
“I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.”
“A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.”
“All corporate-owned, publicly-traded media is our first and most immediate enemy.”
“..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.”

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