Maya Angelou Quotes

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If someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

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IÃ¢â?¬â?¢ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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I know why the caged bird sings.

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

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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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I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.'

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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas,

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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.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

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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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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

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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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Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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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.

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