Maya Angelou Quotes

Live as though life was created for you.

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Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.

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Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

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By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

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If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

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Poetry gave me back my voice.

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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

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We are more alike than unalike.

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

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Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.

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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

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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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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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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

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

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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

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Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

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I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

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