Maya Angelou Quotes, Book Quotes, Native American Quotes

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

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I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

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I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

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When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.

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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

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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.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

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The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

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Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

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