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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#casting #color #directors #easy #films

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#changed #grown #i #into #just

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#first #first time #shows #someone #them

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#accept #courage #cry #done #get

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#back #both #catcher #go #hands

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#admirer #beautiful #beauty #big #grow

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#cannot #courage #despite #faced #history

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now. ↗

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#being #confident #country #i #i am

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#be kind #born #cannot #consistency #courage

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#almost #been #big #choke #dance