Maya Angelou Quotes, Courage Quotes, Practice Quotes

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

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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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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

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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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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.

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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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Look for the beauty in things.

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I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

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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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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

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The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.

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If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

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