Maya Angelou Quotes, Cat Quotes, Writing Quotes

What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.

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The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

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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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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

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I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

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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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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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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.

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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

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Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

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

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

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Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

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Life loves the liver of it.

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You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

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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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Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

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