"In a world so rife with vulgarity, with……" — Maya Angelou
"In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists."
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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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More Brutality Quotes
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
— Georg Brandes
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism,…
— Aberjhani
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Brutality creates respect.
— Adolf Hitler
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We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and…
— Cesar Chavez
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I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something…
— Malcolm X
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once…
— Dalai Lama
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
— Richard J. Needham
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The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
— Richard J. Needham
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