Maya Angelou quotes - page 2

All great achievements require time. (Maya Angelou)
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. View quote
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. View quote
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. View quote
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. View quote
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. View quote
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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 can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. View quote
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The needs of a society determine its ethics. View quote
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. View quote
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait. View quote
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. (Maya Angelou)
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. View quote
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. View quote
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. View quote
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. View quote
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. View quote
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Nothing will work unless you do. View quote
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. View quote
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. View quote
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. View quote
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. (Maya Angelou)
Life loves the liver of it. View quote
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. View quote
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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. View quote
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. View quote
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