Maya Angelou Quotes, Love Quotes, Life Quotes

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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I like to know what's happening.

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One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

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At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

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Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.

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Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

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The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

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Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

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I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

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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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I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

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A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.

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I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

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We are only as blind as we want to be.

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I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

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Preach it, I say preach it.

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