Maya Angelou Quotes, Uplifting Quotes, People Quotes

I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.

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I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation.

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I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

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Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

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I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all.

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Poetry is music written for the human voice.

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The future is plump with promise.

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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

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A mother's love liberates.

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I live in an atmosphere of music.

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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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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

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Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

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