Maya Angelou Quotes, Life Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year.

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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

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We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

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You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

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I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

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A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

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When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.

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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

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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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I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

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It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

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