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Maya Angelou Quotes
“Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” 
― Maya Angelou
“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.” 
― Maya Angelou
“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” 
― Maya Angelou
“Faith is the evidence of the unseen.” 
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“No,nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.” 
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“If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape” 
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“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” 
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“The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?” 
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“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents” 
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•“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style” 
― Maya Angelou
•“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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“He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.” 
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“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.” 
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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.” 
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•“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” 
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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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“You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.” 
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•“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” 
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•“Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud.” 
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•“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” 
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•“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.” 
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•“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” 
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•“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” 
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•“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” 
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•“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” 
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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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•“I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” 
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•“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” 
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•“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” 
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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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•“The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” 
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“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” 
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•“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” 
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“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; 
to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” 
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•“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.” 
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•“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” 
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•“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” 
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“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!” 
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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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•““There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.” 
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•“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” 
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•“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” 
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•“Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.” 
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•“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” 
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•“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.” 
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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 that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” 
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•“Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.” 
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•“We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.” 
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•“I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.” 
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•“I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?” 
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•“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.” 
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•“The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...” 
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•“When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.” 
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•“You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for” 
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•“If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.” 
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•“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.” 
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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.” 
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•“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.” 
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•“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” 
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•“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.” 
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•“Nothing will work unless you do.” 
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•“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“You may write me down in history 
With your bitter, twisted lies.
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.” 
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•“Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.” 
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•“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. ” 
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•“The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.” 
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•“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“Live as though life was created for you.” 
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•“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.” 
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•“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.” 
― Maya Angelou
“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.” 
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“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ” 
― Maya Angelou
•“The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.” 
― Maya Angelou
•“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” 
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•“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.” 
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•“All great achievements require time.” 
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•“Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.” 
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•“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.” 
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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.” 
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