Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
MAYA ANGELOUThe problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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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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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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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.
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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 learn, teach, when you get, give.
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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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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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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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There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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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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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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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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