Maya Angelou Quotes, Legacy Quotes, World Quotes

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

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Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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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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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

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I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.

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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

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I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

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Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.

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At our best, we're all teachers

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I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

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Don't bring negative to my door.

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Forgive yourself - no one else will.

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A mother's love liberates.

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