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.
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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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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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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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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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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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 believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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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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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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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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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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