Maya Angelou Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Pride Quotes

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

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There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

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People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

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Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

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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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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

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We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

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Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

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No not me go find someone else to bring down

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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

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I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

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My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

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