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The love of the family, the l...

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

You may write me down in hist...

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

What humility does for one is...

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

In all my work, I try to say ...

In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Don't let the incidents which...

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

I work very hard, and I play ...

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Elimination of illiteracy is ...

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was...

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Everybody born comes from the...

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Our stories come from our liv...

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Find a beautiful piece of art...

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

While the rest of the world h...

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

I'm just someone who likes co...

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Self-pity in its early stage ...

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

The sadness of the women's mo...

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

I'm grateful to intelligent p...

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

I did work in a strip club, b...

I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Perhaps travel cannot prevent...

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 1013 quotes

I respect myself and insist u...

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

As far as I knew white women ...

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou 1013 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....