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Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you want.


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MAYA ANGELOU If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
MAYA ANGELOU My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday ev...
MAYA ANGELOU I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even ...
MAYA ANGELOU Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
MAYA ANGELOU As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
MAYA ANGELOU If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
MAYA ANGELOU The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
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 We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
MAYA ANGELOU I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOU It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
MAYA ANGELOU The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
MAYA ANGELOU I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
MAYA ANGELOU I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
MAYA ANGELOU Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
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