Maya Angelou Quotes, Grateful Quotes, Who I Am Quotes

It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

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You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

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There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

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Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

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I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

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I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

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Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

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If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

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Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

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My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

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