A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
MAYA ANGELOUNo one can take the place of a friend, no one.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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 main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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My 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.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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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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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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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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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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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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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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