Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
MAYA ANGELOUBe present in all things and thankful for all things.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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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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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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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 don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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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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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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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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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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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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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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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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