Maya Angelou Quotes
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
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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'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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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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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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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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If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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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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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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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me 'I love you.' … There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
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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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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.