We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

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Small businesses are the threads that bind a community together. That's why we call these the Tapest...
LINDA WATTS Our people represent a tapestry of interwoven identities embodying the rich diversity of what it mea...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som...
ISABEL ALLENDE Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Every day has many threads which I must weave together into the tapestry I call my life.
JIM GENOVESE The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
BILL FRIST We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the wh...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the wh...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threa...
JOHN PIPER It says that we can't have a tapestry of faith. We must have a colorless blanket of faith.
REP. RALPH FOLEY No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.
MARY DORIA RUSSELL

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestr...
KATE BUSH It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Every relationship is like a piece of tapestry. The most beautiful ones are woven with threads of tr...
FIONA MARLENE AFFLECK If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric r...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON And I believe a live show like ours will complement the rich tapestry of the neighborhood.
LAWSON ROBERTS Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The Jewish people are very diverse, and I believe this rich tapestry of identities and experiences s...
LYNN SCHUSTERMAN Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
CAROLE KING We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in openi...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to ext...
WENDELL WILLKIE Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
SHERRILYN KENYON For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We, like lace, make up the very fabric of society, the tapestry of togetherness that consists of hol...
KAYLA SEVERSON We in South Asia are custodians of an ancient civilization and a rich heritage. The South Asian tape...
SHAUKAT AZIZ In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The feather tapestry really speaks of royalty in Peru. I don't know if you can put a price on that.
ANTHONY MANGIONE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full pictur...
FRANCINE RIVERS But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat...
LEWIS CARROLL Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sh...
BILL CLINTON The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
EVO MORALES One Heart! One Mind! One Team! One Dream! One Goal! One Soul! That's how we roll!
MARCUS MAYO A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had...
TAB HUNTER By this time we're all on equal footing; we understand each other and know each other. It makes for ...
BEN SCHWARTZ We are all human beings and I believe that we all should have equal rights.
BLAKE MYCOSKIE So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today...
ANGIE KARAN You know the opinion of Cervantes? He said that reading a translation is like examining the back of ...
CARL SAGAN Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f...
DEAN KOONTZ I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI Let us know our differences! Let us understand our differences! Let us know and understand that we a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michig...
JEAN SHEPHERD The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them....
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free a...
GLENN BECK The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ...
JACK KEROUAC We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS To me, race is not all about grievance. It is also about pride and empathy and humanity and understa...
GWEN IFILL We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In Europe, what seems to bond toads and toadstools strongly is their shared role as potentially toxi...
ADRIAN MORGAN I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't...
JOANNA NOELLE LEVESQUE We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.
MARK TWAIN Everyone recognizes the goal of equal opportunity in all of our institutions. And race-neutral polic...
ADAM SCHIFF Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for ...
JACOB BATALON In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
ABU BAKR We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God crea...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Buddha lets me see the world in color so that I can appreciate its color.
Just as God too lets ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's the little things that make up the richest part of the tapestry of our lives.
ROBERT WARD The Latino population has become such a presence. We are part of the American tapestry in a very pro...
JIMMY SMITS That is what we know how to do better than anyone else: We know how to maximize value for our projec...
DAN GERTLER We want to make sure people understand that this does not equal getting rid of all their insulin sho...
ROBERT GOLDSTEIN The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
GEORGE DIX The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
DOROTHEA DIX I feel very honored that I got a chance to work with Maya Angelou and Oprah Winfrey.
STANLEY CLARKE Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand.
And if we are all born equal ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The candid and honest and pure heartedness of children has strengthened my views that we are all equ...
NIA VARDALOS No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less...
ROBERT MCKEE What makes us all equal are the teachings of Christ.
CRISTABEL MICHAELS There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrad...
HARRISON FORD I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wal...
CHIP ST. CLAIR No laws can be bend for just one man. Just as all are equal before the laws of God. However, if we c...
C. LIDE SANGTAM We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togeth...
DESMOND TUTU Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
ANTHONY DOERR All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't und...
PEP GUARDIOLA No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus t...
PAULO COELHO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN The trends are all the same here, that no matter how profitable these companies get, they still are ...
BOB MASTER We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
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I rise...
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MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
MAYA ANGELOU We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

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We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

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