Maya Angelou Quotes, Adults Quotes, Teens Quotes

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

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Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!

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Don't face the day until you've faced God.

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

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The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

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I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

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Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

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People will never forget how you made them feel.

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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

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You never get over the fear of writing.

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If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

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Laugh as much as you can.

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

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