Maya Angelou Quotes, Children Quotes, Son Quotes

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

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I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.

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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

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Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

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But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

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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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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

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I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

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When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"

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There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

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If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

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There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so.

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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

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Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

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