Maya Angelou Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Condolences Quotes

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

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I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over. So when the rude or cruel thing is said - the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate - I say, "Take it all out of my house!" Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they'll be on my skin.

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The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

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If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

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By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

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I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

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It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

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It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

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Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

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

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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

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