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  • #1
    Malcolm X
    “If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
    Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  • #3
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal

  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #9
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #11
    Maya Angelou
    “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

    (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #12
    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #15
    Maya Angelou
    “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    maya angelou

  • #17
    Maya Angelou
    “Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
    I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
    But when I start to tell them,
    They think I'm telling lies.
    I say,
    It's in the reach of my arms
    The span of my hips,
    The stride of my step,
    The curl of my lips.
    I'm a woman
    Phenomenally.
    Phenomenal woman,
    That's me.”
    Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
    Maya Angelou

  • #19
    Maya Angelou
    “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #21
    Maya Angelou
    “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
    Maya Angelou

  • #22
    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #23
    Maya Angelou
    “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #24
    “Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?”
    Barbara Hillary



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