My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
MAYA ANGELOUI believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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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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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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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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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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