"I got my own back." — Maya Angelou
"I got my own back."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode…
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
— Aristotle
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
— Paul Auster
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
— Dido Armstrong
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense…
— Karen Armstrong
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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