"The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder -- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever."

Angelou, Maya | Men and Women | 2 bookmarks

"For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do."

Banks, George Linnaeus | Aid and Assistance | 1 bookmarks

"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden."

Brooks, Phillips | Aid and Assistance | 2 bookmarks

"We all need each other."

Buscaglia, Leo | Aid and Assistance | 1 bookmarks

"No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves."

Johnson | Aid and Assistance | 1 bookmarks

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

Angelis, Barbara De | Anger | 10 bookmarks

"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle | Anger | 13 bookmarks

"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."

Churchill, Winston | Anxiety | 4 bookmarks

"Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!"

Martin, Steve | Apologies | 1 bookmarks

"Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life."

Craik, Dinah Mulock | Daughters | 7 bookmarks