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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

When I get bored, I get into trouble. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#get #i #into #trouble

I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#babies #because #been #come #different

If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#against #anybody #anything #because #called

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. ↗

— Ben Harper

#called #center #family #folk #folk music

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it. ↗

— Mark Harmon

#called #doing #get #homework #i

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass. ↗

— Ben Harper

#before #brass #difference #fooled #gold

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music. ↗

— Ben Harper

#i #insult #life #love #music

I refuse to make uninspired music. ↗

— Ben Harper

#make #music #refuse #uninspired

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual. ↗

— Ben Harper

#being #cause #closest #ever #every