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I. Frost's Selected Quotations
Everything at Amazon by and about: Maya AngelouLife loves the liver of it. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable 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. There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth 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. If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. 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 I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. Effective action is always unjust In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong Being a woman is hard work. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers For Africa to me . . . is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return Achievement brings its own anticlimax Lyrical poetry is out for the time being, and something that is called rap or hip-hop is in. It is still poetry, and we can't live without it. We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of -- to explain the pains and glory of our existence Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, "I am with you kid. Let's go." There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean Nothing will work unless you do The needs of society determine its ethics Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other 6
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