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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“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

“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.”
― Maya Angelou

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
― Maya Angelou

“We need much less than we think we need.”
― Maya Angelou

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.”
― Bob Marley

“Love would never leave us alone”
― Bob Marley

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
― Bob Marley

“Herb is the unification of mankind.”
― Bob Marley

“Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way than this:

where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. ”
― Pablo Neruda

“All I can be is me- whoever that is. ”
― Bob Dylan

“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.”
― Bob Dylan

“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”
― Bob Dylan

“Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”
― Bob Dylan

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

“The truth was obscure,
Too profound and too pure,
To live it you had to explode”
― Bob Dylan

“How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”
― Bob Dylan

“i've forgotten more than you'll ever know”
― bob dylan

“If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.”
― Bob Dylan

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
― Bob Dylan

“A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.”
― Bob Dylan

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
― Bob Dylan

“Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!”
― Bob Dylan

“Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you”
― Bob Dylan, Lyrics: 1962-2001

“All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”
― Bob Dylan

“If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.”
― Bob Dylan

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!”
― Bob Dylan