Maya Angelou Quotes, Brother Quotes, Writing Quotes

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

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I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

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I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

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I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

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I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

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I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

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

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story.

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I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

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It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

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We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

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Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

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Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

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