Maya Angelou Quotes, Mother Quotes, Teacher Quotes

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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All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

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Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

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One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

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Don't bring negative to my door.

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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.

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When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.

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I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

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If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

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Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

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