Maya Angelou Quotes, Mother Quotes, Children Quotes

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

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Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

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Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

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Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

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Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

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You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

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There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

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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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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!

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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

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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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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

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Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

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