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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
Maya Angelou -
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
Maya Angelou -
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
Maya Angelou -
I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
Maya Angelou -
I went to sleep last night and I arose with the dawn, I know that there are others who're still sleeping on, They've gone away, You've let me stay, I want to thank You.
Maya Angelou -
One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Maya Angelou -
Visit us again, Savior.Your children, burdened with disbelief, blinded by a patina of wisdom, carom down this vale of fear. We cry for you although we have lost your name.
Maya Angelou
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In all the world there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world there is no love for you like mine.
Maya Angelou -
I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
Maya Angelou -
I created myself. I have taught myself so much.
Maya Angelou -
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou -
I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
Maya Angelou -
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
Maya Angelou
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In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
Maya Angelou -
'Glory Falls'
Maya Angelou -
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
Maya Angelou