Maya Angelou Quotes, Giving Quotes, Courtesy Quotes

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

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When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"

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We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.

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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

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I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

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Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

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When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

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You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

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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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We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

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A societies needs determines their ethics

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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

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I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

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Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

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I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

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You never get over the fear of writing.

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