What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness.... →
Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's... →
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all... →
I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very... →
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I... →
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and... →
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up... →
At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in... →