Maya Angelou Quotes, Peace Quotes, Unjust Quotes

Effective action is always unjust.

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Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

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Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

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Don't face the day until you've faced God.

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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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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

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I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better

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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

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Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

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The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

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No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.

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It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

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