I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOUI’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.
More Maya Angelou Quotes
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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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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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
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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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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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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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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.
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What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
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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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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 sustain myself with the love of family.
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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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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself.
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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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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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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.
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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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