Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.
MAYA ANGELOUMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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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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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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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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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.
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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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I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek him just to find her.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
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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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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 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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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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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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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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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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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