Maya Angelou Quotes, Mom Quotes, Hair Quotes

Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.

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The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

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I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking for chicken and someone gives them pork chops, they'll say, "I will have another." And that's because their satisfaction is not reached. So I thought I would make great food, but eat less of it. I tried it and I've taken off over 40 pounds.

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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

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Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.

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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

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Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

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Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

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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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