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.
MAYA ANGELOUWhile 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.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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All great achievements require time.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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