“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”
"'A feeling of realistic optimism': An interview with Nadine Gordimer" by Karen Lazar, Salmagundi 113 (Winter 1997)
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