Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
MAYA ANGELOUWhat 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.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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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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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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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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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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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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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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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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