Maya Angelou quotes - page 11

I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. (Maya Angelou)
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. View quote
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Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. View quote
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I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. View quote
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. View quote
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My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. View quote
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I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true. View quote
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. View quote
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Years ago I read a man named Machado de Assis who wrote a book called Dom Casmurro. View quote
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise! View quote
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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. (Maya Angelou)
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side. View quote
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Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun! View quote
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. View quote
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. View quote
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity. View quote
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. View quote
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. View quote
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly. View quote
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. View quote
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. (Maya Angelou)
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses. View quote
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?' View quote
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. View quote
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. View quote
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