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I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted


Maya Angelou

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KELLY JONES It’s so dark - as if all the lights are just there to make the other places seem darker.
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HELEN HUMPHREYS I turned on the flashlight; it cut a small circle of light from the darkness around me.
AZAR NAFISI В молчании — слово,
А свет лишь во тьме.
И жизнь по...
Урсула Ле Гуин Что за смех, что за радость, когда мир постоянно горит? �...
BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI Каким бы темным и страшным не казался тебе сейчас мир, �...
GOTHAM Грех не в темноте, а в нежелании света.
Цветаева М.И. Легче зажечь одну маленькую свечу, чем клясть темноту.
Конфуций অন্ধকারে চেরাগ জ্বালানো' আর 'অন্ধের সা...
SHOBUJ TAPOSH When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced
JOHN M SHEEHAN You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them ...
SETH ADAM SMITH If I've learned anything in my life, it's that there is no darkness so absolute that it cannot be di...
KERRIGAN BYRNE For every item that carries the darkness of humanity there's one that holds the light. And that ligh...
C.M. RAYNE It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.
JULIEN TORMA It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we c...
MAYA ANGELOU You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become...
JULIE KAGAWA Бог приходят ярким светом
В души к людям, тьмой одет�...
Уильям Блейк Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance int...
ABHIJIT NASKAR What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the powe...
C. JOYBELL C. Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they neve...
COURTNEY M. PRIVETT In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. W...
HARLAN COBEN We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkn...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There is no denying that there is evil in this world but the light will always conquer the darkness.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
JOHN SCALZI There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs som...
TOBA BETA It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
JON KABAT-ZINN There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI The door closed and darkness claimed the room.
R.J. LAWRENCE The play is more about their struggle, their battle, ... It's also playing with what language is and...
STEPHEN SACHS There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS In Art canvases DRAW answers and withdraw the silence of hidden lamps, illumination.
GOITSEMANG SANDRA MVULA You are the light in my darkness,
Restful peace for my soul.
You are the one who rescues m...
LILY G BLUNT We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.
MARK W. BOYER Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.
SETH ADAM SMITH A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss mean...
JOHN SCALZI Communication is at the very core of our society. That's what makes us human.
JAN KOUM Just as the morning light sweeps away the night, the darkness within me began to be chased away by a...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION Myths are different than fairy tales or legends. Legends are stories based in history and are more o...
SETH ADAM SMITH Darkness always causes fear and chaos inside us. We are always scared of losing ourselves somewhere ...
AKSHAY VASU It really bothered me when the rangers started talking about what might have happened and about call...
JAMES PENFOLD It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. ...
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF All good things are borne from evil, just like good people. It’s very rare that someone does thing...
KEVIN REAVER Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
FRANCINE RIVERS Love and fear is what makes us who we are, fragile human beings.
NAGOTSY ONAVUH Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to ...
EMILY THORNE If there was no such thing as death, men would scarcely live. The human race thrives on the fear of ...
KIRPA RAI You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
THERESE MAY when you fall into darkness do not spend all your energy and light rather than to remain in darkness...
KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER Light brings the day and light leaves the night.
Use your time wisely. Reach for the light
BRENT M. JONES We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to ...
ANGELINA JOLIE In walking, far from any vehicle or machine, from any mediation, I am replaying the earthly human co...
FRéDéRIC GROS I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep the rough edges and th...
JARVIS COCKER Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkn...
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering...
KILROY J. OLDSTER There are people who grew up in rough environments, and you just don't hear about it. And they make ...
MARSHALL FAULK A man typically lights a scene too much, because it makes no matter what you show, a man always want...
RICHARD MELO The efforts to rise from darkness into light, from ignorance to knowledge, from prejudices to free t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confrontin...
NANCY A. COLLINS Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
JULIA CAMERON Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness
JULIA CAMERON And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to god...
MARK LAWRENCE It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about traged...
HOLLY HUNTER If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even d...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the dar...
LAUREN OLIVER Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or t...
VERONICA ROTH I am a manifestation of misery and torment with veins pumping agony. I am the darkness that makes bl...
ANGEL FLORES Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life...
EUGENE KENNEDY I stumble and fall.
I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH My light was held in the dark until I was ready. The darkness is not a thing to fear, simply a place...
KELLY MARTIN I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what ma...
ZERESENAY ALEMSEGED It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Darkness is, in reality, nothing but the lack of light. So, darkness is natural, light is unnatural....
ABHIJIT NASKAR Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
FRANCINE RIVERS I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently fr...
FRANZ KAFKA Do you and I allow light to chase darkness from our souls as well?
ANASAZI FOUNDATION What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin...
ANISH KAPOOR We are alike in many ways, you and I. There is darkness in us. Darkness, pain, death. They radiate f...
ROBERT JORDAN God has given you what makes you unique
SUNDAY ADELAJA If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That...
R. KELLY It's kind of friendly competition. We get together monthly and talk about this particular activity a...
LEE VANDIVER The dance between darkness and light will always remain— the stars and the moon will always need t...
C. JOYBELL C. If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you sp...
COLSON WHITEHEAD What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is jus...
ZOSIA MAMET Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most...
AMBER DECKERS I am concerned about what kind of fallout there might be and what it forces us into in other states.
JAY ROBERSON I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.
HARUKI MURAKAMI If darkness surrounds you, look for the light. If you can't see it, raise your head up. You may be s...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR We are spirits deceived by the sky to create light and trade our souls to the sun but fail to become...
GOITSEMANG MVULA In the end there is only light and dark. And the two are not so far apart.
THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS Success is a condition that gives us the ability to do what makes us happy.
DEBASISH MRIDHA There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that ot...
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MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
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When great trees fall,
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MAYA ANGELOU Life loves the liver of it.
MAYA ANGELOU A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU ...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
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MAYA ANGELOU Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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MAYA ANGELOU Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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MAYA ANGELOU If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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MAYA ANGELOU Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
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.
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