Maya Angelou Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Creative Quotes

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

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Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.

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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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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

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

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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

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The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

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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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When you know better you do better.

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I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

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