"I respect myself and insist upon it..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.”
“In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”
“I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.”
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“Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated.”
“I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.”
“We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living”
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“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
“I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'”
“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”