Maya Angelou Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Ideas Quotes

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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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

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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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Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

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Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

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The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

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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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"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.

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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

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I've had rainbows in my clouds.

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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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