Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOUMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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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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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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All great achievements require time.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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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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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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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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