I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOUYou 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!
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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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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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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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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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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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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