Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOUThere’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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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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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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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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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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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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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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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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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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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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