Maya Angelou Quotes, Life Quotes, God Quotes

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

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

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Life loves the liver of it.

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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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You can't use up creativity, creative thinking builds on itself and increases the creativity of the thinker...You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

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We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

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Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.

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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

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I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.

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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.

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Facts can obscure the truth.

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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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I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

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Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

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If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

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Have enough courage to love.

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