It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
MAYA ANGELOUThere is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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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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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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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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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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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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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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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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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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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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