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#1

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing

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#2

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#3

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#5

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#6

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#7

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

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#8

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

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#9

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#10

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: adolescence, adulthood, growing-up, i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings, maturity, maya-angelou, youth

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#11

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: maya-angelou

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#12

“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: maya-angelou

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#13

“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: jane-austen, jane-austen-book-club

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#14

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: courage, dignity, empowerment, freedom, independence, individuality, judgment, self-determination, speaking-out, thought

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#15

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, misquote, self-determination

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#16

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

tags: be-yourself, identity, individuality, inspirational, life, self-determination, self-esteem, self-expression

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#17

“Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: be-yourself, individuality, self-determination

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#18

“The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.”
― Indira Gandhi

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#19

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and vibrantly alive in repose.”
― Indira Gandhi

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#20

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”
― Indira Gandhi

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#21

“A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.”
― Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi on herself and her times: Her last and only autobiographical interview with Nemai Sadhan Bose

tags: power-of-will

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#22

“Accomplishments have no color.”
― Leontyne Price

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#23

“You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.”
― Leontyne Price

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#24

“To sing is the most human of the art form delivery, more than, perhaps, an instrument which has to be tuned mechanically. You are the tuner; you are the vessel. Everything depends on how you feel as a person. It is for you to hear how beautiful your instrument is. From you to you with much, much love. That way you can send it out to the public because they make the careers. Once they accept you and your freedom to be and your love for singing they never leave you. There is no love like that.”
― Leontyne Price

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#25

“Most people write me off when they see me.
They do not know my story.
They say I am just an African.
They judge me before they get to know me.
What they do not know is
The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins;
The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people;
The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community;
The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance;
The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it.
Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning.
So you think I am nothing?
Don’t worry about what I am now,
For what I will be, I am gradually becoming.
I will raise my head high wherever I go
Because of my African pride,
And nobody will take that away from me.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

tags: africa, africa-herbalist, africa-house, africa-leaders, africa-people, africa-quotes, africa-s-predicament, africa-s-wealth, africa-will-shake, african, african-american, african-american-authors, african-americans, african-authors, african-believes, african-citizens, african-continent, african-cultural, african-culture, african-cup-of-nations, african-descent, african-development, african-development-bank, african-dictators, african-fiction, african-freethinker, african-great-healer, african-great-lakes, african-healer, african-juju, african-languages, african-leaders, african-literature, african-my-motherland, african-national-congress, african-people, african-proverb, african-quotes, african-safari, african-saying, african-socialism, african-story-telling, african-traditional-healer, african-union, african-voodoo, african-woman, african-women, african-writer, africana, africana-studies, africans, black-america, black-americans, black-book-author, black-girl, black-girls-rock, black-history, black-history-month, black-in-america, black-intellectuals, black-is-beautiful, black-literary-classics, black-literature, black-lives-matter, black-queen, black-woman, black-women, blackness, china-achebe, desmond-tutu, kofi-annan, kwame-nkrumah, nelson-mandela

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#26

“What do you want?” I asked, trying to ignore him.

“Probably something that you want.”

I rolled my eyes at the emphasis of the word you.

“And what would I want?” I asked.

“To go back to Africa. If you want to live in America as if it's Africa, then you might as well go back to Africa.”

“Go BACK?” I asked, emphasizing my incredulity at the sound of the word back.

“Isn’t that where you came from?”

“I mean… I could see it in my ancestry… my parents were of African decency… but I was born in America, and I am legally an American citizen.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

tags: african-american, citizenship, inclusion, patriotism

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#27

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: friendship

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#28

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
― Muhammad Ali

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#29

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

tags: inspirational

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#30

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: inspirational

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#31

“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”
― Mary Church Terrell

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