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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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

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Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

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We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

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With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

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Being a woman is hard work.

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Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

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For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

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His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

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To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

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The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

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The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

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