Maya Angelou quotes - page 12

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. (Maya Angelou)
At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself. View quote
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In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. View quote
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. View quote
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. View quote
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. View quote
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. View quote
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know. View quote
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The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. View quote
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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it. View quote
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I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever. (Maya Angelou)
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race. View quote
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. View quote
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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it. View quote
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Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.' View quote
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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language. View quote
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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole. View quote
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience. View quote
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I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. View quote
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine. View quote
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition. (Maya Angelou)
There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know. View quote
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.' View quote
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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles. View quote
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. View quote
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