"Let's tell the truth to people. When people……" — Maya Angelou
"Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will…
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There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One…
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It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
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