Maya Angelou Quotes, Writing Quotes, Serious Quotes

When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'

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My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by. Amazing songs. So that the slaves, just knowing that he, she, did not have the right legally to walk within one inch away from where the slave owner dictated, and yet the same person, wrote and sang with fervor, "If the lord wants somebody, here am I, send me." It's amazing.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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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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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

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No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.

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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

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It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

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I like to know what's happening.

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