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Humans Quotes by Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou describes love as a deep force that lets us survive and thrive with passion. She warns that ignoring the weakest members of society is the first blow to a community. She also draws a line between facts and the deeper truth. She believes the noblest cause is freeing the human mind.

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I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

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The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

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Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

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We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

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No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

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We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that…

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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years…

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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how…

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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

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I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with…

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I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how…

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The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a…

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if…

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You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And…

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Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of…

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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's…

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more…

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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must…

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By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean…

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I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to…

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I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.…

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Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where…

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There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with…

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I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to…

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If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or…

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have…

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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive…

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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

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To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the…

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The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its…

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Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a…

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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side…

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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a…

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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we…

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“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a…

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take…