Maya Banks quote: "I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."<br />He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women."

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I know this woman.”
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They won’t really shoot us, will they?” Faith whispered as they started forward.
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This doesn't just involve you, honey. If it did, then what you suggest might be the best option. But...
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I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.
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As what-the-fuck moments went, this one was one of the bigger ones.
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Oh my Jesus," she breathed. "Evangeline, what do you do with all these wonderful young men?"
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The Cubs are due in sixty-two.
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The butter from Dorothy's' crumpet
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Every woman has a story,
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I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
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In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to li...
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper ...
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Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to...
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white...
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Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beau...
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it ove...
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In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church j...
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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when...
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I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their h...
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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'...
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I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human bein...
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I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only a...
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been livi...
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I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And ...
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I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of '...
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
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All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible t...
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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b...
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Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to Californ...
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become u...
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can...
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't w...
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I got my own back.
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If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will a...
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.'...
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. Y...
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac...
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I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a...
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You hav...
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you...
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,...
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
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If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!'...
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and su...
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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a ...
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin...
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ...
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I d...
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Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can ...
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Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you w...
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to ...
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You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else...
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
MAYA ANGELOU

Nothing will work unless you do.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
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If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacr...
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very...
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
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Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its disple...
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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t...
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To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what y...
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
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Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
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Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will...
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
li...
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African sa...
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
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A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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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...
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise...
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If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act o...
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
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Life loves the liver of it.
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's gre...
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I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."
He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

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I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."
He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

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I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

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I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you."
He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.