Maya Angelou Quotes, Legacy Quotes, World Quotes

If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.

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The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

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And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

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Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

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Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.

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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

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Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

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The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

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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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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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Tell the truth and not the facts.

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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

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I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

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To those who are given much, much is expected.

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