Maya Angelou Quotes
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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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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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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…
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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…
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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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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated…
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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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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 you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically,…
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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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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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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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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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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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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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