Maya Angelou Quotes, Song Quotes, World Quotes

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

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I know something better is on the road for me.

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Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

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Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

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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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Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

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Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

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The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

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Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

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I believe that every person is born with talent.

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When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world, that is when, and only when we come to it

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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

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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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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

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Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

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Facts can obscure the truth.

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