Maya Angelou Quotes
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We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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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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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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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 think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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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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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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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.
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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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'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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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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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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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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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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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.