Maya Angelou Quotes, Believe Quotes, Love You Quotes

I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

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I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the result of extreme pressure and time. Less time is crystal. Less than that is coal. Less than that is fossilized leaves. Less than that it's just plain dirt. In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.

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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

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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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If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."

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Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.

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Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

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We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

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To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

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