Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
MAYA ANGELOUWe need much less than we think we need.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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 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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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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Don’t let the man bring you down.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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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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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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