Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOUMy mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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All great achievements require time.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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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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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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