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I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo. (Maya Angelou)
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. View quote
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise. View quote
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Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins. View quote
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It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally. View quote
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain. View quote
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. View quote
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me. View quote
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Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. View quote
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Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. View quote
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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents. (Maya Angelou)
Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. View quote
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That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home. View quote
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Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood. View quote
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications.... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. View quote
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People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. View quote
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You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise. View quote
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Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. View quote
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. View quote
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My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. View quote
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I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." (Maya Angelou)
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself. View quote
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A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. View quote
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible...We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. View quote
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.") View quote
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