Maya Angelou Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Mean Quotes

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

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Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

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Success is loving life and daring to live it.

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My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

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Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

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Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

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I like to know what's happening.

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Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

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One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

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Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

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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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I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

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