Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Positive Quotes

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

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I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

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I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

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There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.

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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

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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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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

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Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

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The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

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I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

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The future is plump with promise.

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