Maya Angelou Quotes
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya Angelou
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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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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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
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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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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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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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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
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We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.
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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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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear. I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
Maya Angelou