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Maya Angelou quotes: The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly. The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
Maya Angelou quotes: Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others. Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.
Maya Angelou quotes: My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness. My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.
Maya Angelou quotes: I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
Maya Angelou quotes: Of course I could drive. Idiots and lunatics drove cars. Why not the brilliant Marguerite Johnson? Of course I could drive. Idiots and lunatics drove cars. Why not the brilliant Marguerite Johnson?
Maya Angelou quotes: No one has ever become poor from giving. No one has ever become poor from giving.
Maya Angelou quotes: Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
Maya Angelou quotes: We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been. We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
Maya Angelou quotes: The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
Maya Angelou quotes: Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers. Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
Maya Angelou quotes: It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody. It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
Maya Angelou quotes: Inscribed on the temple of Apollo Inscribed on the temple of Apollo
Maya Angelou quotes: When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way ... When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way ...
Maya Angelou quotes: Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them. Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.
Maya Angelou quotes: It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different. It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
Maya Angelou quotes: One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it. One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
Maya Angelou quotes: It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful. It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.
Maya Angelou quotes: When women take care of their health they become their own best friend. When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.
Maya Angelou quotes: I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Maya Angelou quotes: Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between. Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Maya Angelou quotes: My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
Maya Angelou quotes: I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve. I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
Maya Angelou quotes: The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.
Maya Angelou quotes: All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market. All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.
Maya Angelou quotes: At our best, we're all teachers At our best, we're all teachers
Maya Angelou quotes: The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Maya Angelou quotes: Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God. Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.
Maya Angelou quotes: Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears. Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
Maya Angelou quotes: We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou quotes: I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human conditionabout what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive. I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition
about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.
Maya Angelou quotes: Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now. Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
Maya Angelou quotes: Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
Maya Angelou quotes: You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
Maya Angelou quotes: You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
Maya Angelou quotes: Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by. Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
Maya Angelou quotes: You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
Maya Angelou quotes: Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them. Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.
Maya Angelou quotes: When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness ... all the good things. When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness ... all the good things.
Maya Angelou quotes: Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace. Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
Maya Angelou quotes: Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides. Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.
Maya Angelou quotes: All I got to do is stay black and die. All I got to do is stay black and die.
Maya Angelou quotes: I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself. I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
Maya Angelou quotes: Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side. Lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.
Maya Angelou quotes: Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
Maya Angelou quotes: under my eye, but not my thumb. under my eye, but not my thumb.
Maya Angelou quotes: Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance. Never let white folks know what you really think. If you're sad, laugh. If you're bleeding inside, dance.
Maya Angelou quotes: You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats. You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
Maya Angelou quotes: A mother's love liberates. A mother's love liberates.
Maya Angelou quotes: Life loves the liver of it. Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou quotes: I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. I I had to trust life, since I was young enough to believe that life loved the person who dared to live it. I
Maya Angelou quotes: At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou quotes: A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream. A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.
Maya Angelou quotes: Removed from their own day of glorious release Removed from their own day of glorious release
Maya Angelou quotes: They were assured that they were going to be the only inhabitants of that milk and honey... They were assured that they were going to be the only inhabitants of that milk and honey...
Maya Angelou quotes: When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
Maya Angelou quotes: Still I'll rise. Still I'll rise.
Maya Angelou quotes: We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance
Maya Angelou quotes: I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
Maya Angelou quotes: Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
Maya Angelou quotes: Let nothing dim the light that shines from within Let nothing dim the light that shines from within
Maya Angelou quotes: I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful. I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.
Maya Angelou quotes: You can call for the cook, call for the baker, you may as well call for the undertaker. You can call for the cook, call for the baker, you may as well call for the undertaker.
Maya Angelou quotes: She's one of our fans. She comes to the theater and allows us to curse and berate her, and that's her contribution to our struggle. Roscoe She's one of our fans. She comes to the theater and allows us to curse and berate her, and that's her contribution to our struggle. Roscoe
Maya Angelou quotes: Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself. Seek the fashion which truly fits and befits you. You will always be in fashion if you are true to yourself, and only if you are true to yourself.
Maya Angelou quotes: The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Maya Angelou quotes: Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals. Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.
Maya Angelou quotes: Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible. Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou quotes: I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.
Maya Angelou quotes: Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are. Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
Maya Angelou quotes: Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou quotes: Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.
Maya Angelou quotes: I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
Maya Angelou quotes: I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them. I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
Maya Angelou quotes: Achievement brings its own anticlimax. Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou quotes: Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible. Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.
Maya Angelou quotes: To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable. To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
Maya Angelou quotes: One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority. One person, with good purpose, can, constitute the majority.
Maya Angelou quotes: Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N. Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N.
Maya Angelou quotes: You can never be great at anything unless you love it. You can never be great at anything unless you love it.
Maya Angelou quotes: Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
Maya Angelou quotes: When we know better, we do better. When we know better, we do better.
Maya Angelou quotes: It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou quotes: A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning. He A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning. He
Maya Angelou quotes: Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness. Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
Maya Angelou quotes: I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young, I was seventeen, very old, embarrassingly young,
Maya Angelou quotes: Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
Maya Angelou quotes: The future is plump with promise. The future is plump with promise.
Maya Angelou quotes: Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
Maya Angelou quotes: Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains. Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
Maya Angelou quotes: People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel. People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.
Maya Angelou quotes: You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it. You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.
Maya Angelou quotes: But still, like air, I'll rise But still, like air, I'll rise
Maya Angelou quotes: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou quotes: We are more alike than we are unalike!" That We are more alike than we are unalike!" That
Maya Angelou quotes: The music was my friend, my lover, my family. The music was my friend, my lover, my family.
Maya Angelou quotes: Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it. Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to chose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
Maya Angelou quotes: Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou quotes: It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Maya Angelou quotes: I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
Maya Angelou quotes: If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved. 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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