Maya Angelou Quotes, Courageous Quotes

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

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It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

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

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One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

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The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

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I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'

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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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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

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To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

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Effective action is always unjust.

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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

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Don't let the man bring you down.

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