“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. —Maya Angelou”

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”

“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.”

“You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you’re going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things, there’s never a rhyme or reason. It’s, like, they just happen. And they happen when they happen.”

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

“Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.”

“What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.”

“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”