Maya Angelou Quotes, Memories Quotes

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

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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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The most important thing is to DARE.

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At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

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Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

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Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

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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, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

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I know why the caged bird sings.

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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

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Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

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My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

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I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.

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