Maya Angelou Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Long Quotes

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

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In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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Life loves the person who dares to live it.

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I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.

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When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

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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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The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

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I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking for chicken and someone gives them pork chops, they'll say, "I will have another." And that's because their satisfaction is not reached. So I thought I would make great food, but eat less of it. I tried it and I've taken off over 40 pounds.

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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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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

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

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When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.

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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.

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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

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