Maya Angelou Quotes, Love Quotes, Funny Quotes

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

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The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

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Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.

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When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

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Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

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I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

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Tell the truth and not the facts.

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Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

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Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

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I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

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There is no place where God is not.

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

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