Maya Angelou Quotes, Grandmother Quotes, Men Quotes

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

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Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

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My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

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I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.

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Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

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I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

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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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That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

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Shakespeare must be a black girl.

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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

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The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

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I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.

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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

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