I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
MAYA ANGELOUIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
MAYA ANGELOUThere’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
MAYA ANGELOUI believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOUYou may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
MAYA ANGELOUMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
MAYA ANGELOUI am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
MAYA ANGELOUIn all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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!
MAYA ANGELOUA friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
MAYA ANGELOUA woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
MAYA ANGELOUIf one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
MAYA ANGELOUAsk for what you want and be prepared to get it!
MAYA ANGELOUAny 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.
MAYA ANGELOUI 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.
MAYA ANGELOUWomen should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
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