"You dwell in whitened castles with deep and……" — Maya Angelou
"You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats."
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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 Cannot Hear Quotes
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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
— Thomas Beecham
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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation?…
— Rajneesh
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I…
— Norman Mailer
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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of…
— Joy Harjo
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
— William Butler Yeats
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
— Mother Teresa
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You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in…
— William Shakespeare
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him…
— William Gurnall
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