Maya Angelou Quotes, Balance Quotes

Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.

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Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

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I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.

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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

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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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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.

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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.

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The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

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All God's children need traveling shoes.

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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

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Live life as if it were created just for you.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

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I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

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I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

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The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place to examine the social mores and the economic and political climates. In a way, the autobiography becomes history as well as the story of one person, for it becomes the story of a family or the story of the state or nation.

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