Maya Angelou Quotes, Roots Quotes, Tree Quotes

No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

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There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

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Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

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The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

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I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.

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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.

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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.

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In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

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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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A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

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I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

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Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

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