Maya Angelou Quotes, Travel Quotes, Home Quotes

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

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I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.

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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

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I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

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Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

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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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The future is plump with promise.

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No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

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I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

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You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell."

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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

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