Maya Angelou Quotes, Modesty Quotes, Stuck Up Quotes

I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.

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I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

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The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

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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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Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

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They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.

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Yet it is only love which sets us free.

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I know something better is on the road for me.

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I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

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Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

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