Maya Angelou Quotes, Mother Quotes

My mother raised me, and then freed me.

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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.

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When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

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I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

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Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "If you really loved me, you would call me." How - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But I'm not right at the phone!

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

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There is no place where God is not.

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My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.

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You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

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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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