Maya Angelou Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Pessimistic Quotes

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

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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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Have enough courage to love.

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Tell the truth and not the facts.

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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

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I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

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I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

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When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.

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Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

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Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

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You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.

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Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

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Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

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