Maya Angelou Quotes, Wise Quotes, Grandmother Quotes

When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"

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When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world, that is when, and only when we come to it

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The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

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That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

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One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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

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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

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We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

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Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.

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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

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Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

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I like to know what's happening.

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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