"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you……" — Maya Angelou
"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."
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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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Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs…
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
— Bob Barr
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or…
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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
— Horatio Nelson
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those…
— W G Sebald
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
— B. C. Forbes
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