Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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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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The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live.

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I know something better is on the road for me.

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Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

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The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style.

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All great acheivements require time.

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

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One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

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Whining is just unbecoming.

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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

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Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

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I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

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