The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou
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- We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
- Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.