It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
MAYA ANGELOUEach time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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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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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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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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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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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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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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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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