#ay

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize. ↗

— Little Richard

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I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. ↗

— Little Richard

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It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me. ↗

— Little Richard

#day #education #me #out #poverty

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me. ↗

— Little Richard

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I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' ↗

— Ann Richards

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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong. ↗

— Ann Richards

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I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness. ↗

— Ann Richards

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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. ↗

— Ann Richards

#away #challenges #economic #fit #living

We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. ↗

— Ann Richards

#day #days #elect #every #every day

Well, let me tell you, any conservative that's unhappy with George Bush warms my heart, in any way that they can wake up and smell the coffee would be really great. ↗

— Ann Richards

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