Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.


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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t...
MAYA ANGELOU
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what y...
MAYA LIN
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOU
We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
MAYA ANGELOU
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU
Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
MAYA ANGELOU
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...
MAYA ANGELOU
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
MAYA ANGELOU
The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU
Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...
MAYA ANGELOU
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...
MAYA ANGELOU
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
MAYA ANGELOU
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will...
MAYA ANGELOU
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
MAYA ANGELOU
When Great Trees Fall

When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
li...
MAYA ANGELOU
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth...
MAYA ANGELOU
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
MAYA ANGELOU
I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African sa...
MAYA ANGELOU
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
MAYA ANGELOU
Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the br...
MAYA ANGELOU
A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
MAYA ANGELOU
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...
MAYA ANGELOU
When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU
We need much less than we think we need.
MAYA ANGELOU
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOU
What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise...
MAYA ANGELOU
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act o...
MAYA ANGELOU
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encoun...
MAYA ANGELOU
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
MAYA ANGELOU
Life loves the liver of it.
MAYA ANGELOU
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU
I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU
...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
MAYA ANGELOU
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
MAYA ANGELOU
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down,...
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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...
MAYA ANGELOU