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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.
Maya Angelou -
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
Maya Angelou
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou -
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
Maya Angelou -
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou -
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.
Maya Angelou -
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou -
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
Maya Angelou -
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou -
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
Maya Angelou -
If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.
Maya Angelou -
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
Maya Angelou -
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
Maya Angelou
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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?
Maya Angelou -
It is possible and imperative that we discover a brave and startling truth.
Maya Angelou -
What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
Maya Angelou -
You were a precious pearl How I loved to see you shine, You were the perfect girl. And you were mine. For a time. For a time. Just for a time.
Maya Angelou -
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
Maya Angelou -
I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.
Maya Angelou
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At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.
Maya Angelou -
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou -
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
Maya Angelou -
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
Maya Angelou