Maya Angelou Quotes, Mother Quotes, Good Friend Quotes

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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You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

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I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

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Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

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My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

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We need much less than we think we need.

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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

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You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

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If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

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I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

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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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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

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I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

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Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

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