Maya Angelou Quotes

Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

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• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

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• The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

  

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• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

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• I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

  

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• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

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• I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

  

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• Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

  

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• He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

  

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• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

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• Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.

  

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• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

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• In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.

  

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• My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.

  

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• I put my heart in my work.

  

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• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  

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• But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.

  

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• We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste.

  

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• If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.

  

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• You define beauty for yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

  

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• Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Shakespeare
  • Influenced