Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
MAYA ANGELOUPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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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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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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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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