"My mother raised me, and then freed me," — Maya Angelou
"My mother raised me, and then freed me,"
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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 Freed Quotes
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
— James Buchan
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I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
— Madeleine Albright
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not…
— Lord Byron
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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and,…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function,…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of…
— Matthieu Ricard
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he…
— Samuel Johnson
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If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men…
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers,…
— Ray Lankester
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The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business…
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The…
— John Owen
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