Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
MAYA ANGELOUIf you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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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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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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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.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
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