Maya Angelou Quotes, Good Life Quotes, Mean Quotes

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

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Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

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Life loves the person who dares to live it.

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

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I've had rainbows in my clouds.

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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

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We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.

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Don't let the man bring you down.

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Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.

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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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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

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