The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
MAYA ANGELOUWhile 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.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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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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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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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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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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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
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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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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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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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