Maya Angelou Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Strong Quotes

You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.

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Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

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A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

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Poetry gave me back my voice.

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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

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It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

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I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places.

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