Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
MAYA ANGELOUMy mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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Live as though life was created for you.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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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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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.
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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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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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You 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!
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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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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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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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