"I speak to the black experience, but I……" — Maya Angelou
"I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
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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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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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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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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
— Maya Angelou
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I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems,…
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Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under…
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We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless…
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There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part…
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People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins…
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The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they…
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People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!
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I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way…
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