Maya Angelou quotes - page 9

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Maya Angelou)
In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike. View quote
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No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance. View quote
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I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. View quote
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. View quote
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I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. View quote
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He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his. View quote
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Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross and hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. View quote
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Faith is the evidence of the unseen. View quote
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Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they're going to find out now. I've run a game on everybody and they're going to find me out. View quote
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Years ago I read a man named Machado de Assis who wrote a book called Dom Casmurro. Machado de Assis is a South American writer - black father, Portuguese mother - writing in 1865, say. I thought the book was very nice. Then I went back and read the book and said, Hmm. I didn't realize all that was in that book. Then I read it again, and again, and I came to the conclusion that what Machado de Assis had done for me was almost a trick: he had beckoned me onto the beach to watch a sunset. And I had watched the sunset with pleasure. When I turned around to come back in I found that the tide had come in over my head. That's when I decided to write. (Maya Angelou)
It is possible and imperative that we discover A brave and startling truth. View quote
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You were a precious pearl How I loved to see you shine, You were the perfect girl. And you were mine. For a time. For a time. Just for a time. View quote
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Nathaniel Hawthorne says, "Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy. View quote
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. View quote
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. View quote
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Effective action is always unjust. View quote
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax. View quote
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. View quote
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I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. View quote
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. (Maya Angelou)
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. View quote
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You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking. View quote
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Petulant priests, greedy centurions, and one million incensed gestures stand between your love and me. View quote
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers. View quote
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