Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOUSurviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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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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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
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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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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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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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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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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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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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