Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. ✨ Phenomenal: 12 Pearls o…

Maya Angelou
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. ✨ Phenomenal: 12 Pearls of Wisdom From Maya Angelou by Tai Goodwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution. ✨ Maya Angelou (2008). Letter to My Daughter, p. … ▶
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ✨ Celebrating Our She-roes by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.
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 books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I … ▶
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 I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the c … ▶
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every … ▶

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant. ✨ Phenomenal: 12 Pearls of Wisdom From Maya Angelou by Tai Goodwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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