Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
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Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him. -
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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.