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Maya Angelou  Quotes
Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you’ve heard me crying and admit you’ve seen my tears.

—Maya Angelou

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EqualityPoetry
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

—Maya Angelou

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LovePerfect-Fit
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I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may...

—Maya Angelou

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DeathLetter-To-My-Daughter
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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do...

—Maya Angelou

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LiteratureReadingSelf-Discovery
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I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

—Maya Angelou

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Relationship
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same...

—Maya Angelou

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CallSpeak
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

—Maya Angelou

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Loss
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The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt...

—Maya Angelou

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AgingBeadsHair
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Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

—Maya Angelou

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CookeryMeans
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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white,...

—Maya Angelou

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Said
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

—Maya Angelou

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CertainCookingMother
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It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were...

—Maya Angelou

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Heart
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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

—Maya Angelou

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BirthdayGratitudeMaya-Angelou
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

—Maya Angelou

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Inspirational
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A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn’t keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.I took my time to lead herand to read her every page.Even minimal peoplecan’t survive on minimal wage.A certain...

—Maya Angelou

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LovePoetry
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On this platform of peace, we can create a languageto translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

—Maya Angelou

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Peace
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…Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side.

—Maya Angelou

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DiversityPoemThe-Human-Family
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

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HeartSonStrong
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In all my work, I try to say – ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’

—Maya Angelou

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GivenLemons
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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FoundGivingSoul
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There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

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CourageousInnerSucceed
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

—Maya Angelou

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ChoiceTaught
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I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

—Maya Angelou

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FewJealousTimes
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I’m a serious aficionada of country music – Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I’ve even written some songs. They haven’t done anything of mine yet. But it’s only a matter of time.

—Maya Angelou

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Matter
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.

—Maya Angelou

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Blessings
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

—Maya Angelou

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1969Inspirational
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

—Maya Angelou

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BeautyDiversityParents
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

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AngelouMeaningWords
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think I’m telling lies.I say,It’s in the reach of my armsThe span...

—Maya Angelou

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Phenomenal-WomanWoman
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If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an...

—Maya Angelou

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SayingSenseWrong
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Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day...

—Maya Angelou

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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

—Maya Angelou

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Succeeds
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the...

—Maya Angelou

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EarthRead
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

—Maya Angelou

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Existence
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If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise,...

—Maya Angelou

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DieUnderstand
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At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested,...

—Maya Angelou

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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

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AntipathyHatred
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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Love
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It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no...

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DeathI-Know-Why-The-Caged-Bird-SingsMaya-Angelou
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Don’t let the man bring you down.

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Freedom
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

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BigotryTravel
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

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Shows
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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.

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Others
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful...

—Maya Angelou

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EasyReadWriter
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Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

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PickSmall
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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Almost
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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

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BecameMotherParent
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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

—Maya Angelou

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NumberUnderstandWhether
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This a a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

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GratitudeWonder
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

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ChangeInspirationalSelf-Determination
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