Maya Angelou Quotes, Mother Quotes, Teacher Quotes

When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

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Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

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We have it in us to be splendid.

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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

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All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

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You never get over the fear of writing.

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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

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If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

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Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

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They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

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He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

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I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

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The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

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