Maya Angelou Quotes, Growing Up Quotes

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

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The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

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I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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At our best, we're all teachers

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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

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You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.

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It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

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This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.

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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 long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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