Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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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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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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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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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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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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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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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 loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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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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My dear, when people show you who they are, why don't you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are? Why can't you get it the first time?
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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.