Maya Angelou Quotes
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All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.
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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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I have need of a friend.There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend.And that one is my love.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.