Maya Angelou Quotes, Country Quotes, Trying Quotes

If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

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I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

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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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Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

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Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

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Don't bring negative to my door.

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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

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He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

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You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

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Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

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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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You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.

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I sustain myself with the love of family.

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No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

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Laugh as much as you can.

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