Maya Angelou Quotes, Relax Quotes, Taking A Break Quotes

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

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Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me." The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard.

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The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

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There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

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Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

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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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Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

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Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

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Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

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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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