Maya Angelou Quotes, Life Quotes, God Quotes

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

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

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

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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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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

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I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

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

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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

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I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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My mother raised me, and then freed me.

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Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

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Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

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We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

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