Maya Angelou Quotes, Art Quotes, Thinking Quotes

There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.

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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

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The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

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I live in an atmosphere of music.

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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

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Freedom is never free.

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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

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The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

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Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

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Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

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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 suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

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Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

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It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

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

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