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Maya Angelou Quotes

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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All great achievements require time.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
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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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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
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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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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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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've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Life loves the liver of it.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think aboutmyself.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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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 is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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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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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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