Maya Angelou Quotes

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

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When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world, that is when, and only when we come to it

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Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

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My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

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I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

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I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

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I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, "Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again." They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.

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I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

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When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

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Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

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