Maya Angelou Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Trying Quotes

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

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I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

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By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

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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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As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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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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Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

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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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When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?

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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

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The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

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We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

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