Maya Angelou Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Gay Quotes

You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

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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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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

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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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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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