If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
MAYA ANGELOUIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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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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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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Poetry 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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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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