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Maya Angelou

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MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
MAYA ANGELOU We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
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