Maya Angelou Quotes, Children Quotes, Son Quotes

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

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Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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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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Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

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Love is many things. It is varied. One thing love is not, is unsure.

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The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

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We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

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The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

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