I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
Maya AngelouIf you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.
Maya AngelouI've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
Maya AngelouMy people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.
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