Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Fall Quotes

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

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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.

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You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.

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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

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Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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Your actions speak so much louder than words.

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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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Act as if you are, and you will become such.

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I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

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The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

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If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

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Master your words. Master your thoughts. Never allow your body to do harm. Follow these three roads with purity And you will find yourself upon the one way, The way of wisdom.

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We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

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