Maya Angelou Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

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It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

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That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

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I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

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One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

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Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

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I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

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You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong.

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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To those who are given much, much is expected.

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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

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Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

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You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Live as though life was created for you.

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You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

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The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

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