Maya Angelou Quotes, Children Quotes, Son Quotes

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.

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He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

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And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.

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If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

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I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.

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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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

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You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

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Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

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My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. "You're mildly obese," he said. And I thought, "Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?" He said, "Well, a person in your category." I said, "What is that category, doctor?" He said, "Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged." And I said, "I forgive you for everything."

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