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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. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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Maya Angelou |
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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.
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Maya Angelou |
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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.
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inspirational
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Maya Angelou |
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees. Then they swarm around me..
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woman
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Maya Angelou |
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I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.
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Maya Angelou |
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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inspirational
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Maya Angelou |
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The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
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Maya Angelou |
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My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke,
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Maya Angelou |
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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timidity
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Maya Angelou |
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If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.
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Maya Angelou |
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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
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Maya Angelou |
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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inspirational
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Maya Angelou |
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Don't let the man bring you down.
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Maya Angelou |
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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
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Maya Angelou |
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I've got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe.
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Maya Angelou |
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Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.
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Maya Angelou |
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We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.
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Maya Angelou |
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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.
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faith
inspirational
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Maya Angelou |
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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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Maya Angelou |
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides,
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Maya Angelou |
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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.
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surrender
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Maya Angelou |
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It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
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Maya Angelou |
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We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine.
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Maya Angelou |
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
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Maya Angelou |
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place -- you belong every place -- no place at all.
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Maya Angelou |
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A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless..
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Maya Angelou |
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Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses. Flood waters await us in our avenues. Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow to avalanche Over unprotected villages. The sky slips low and grey and threatening. We question ourselves. What have we done to so affront nature? We worry God. Are you there? Are you there really? Does the covenant you made with us still hold? Into ..
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Maya Angelou |
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
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Maya Angelou |
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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.
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Maya Angelou |
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A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.
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Maya Angelou |
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Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears
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poetry-quotes
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Maya Angelou |
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Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply
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Maya Angelou |
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Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.
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Maya Angelou |
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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
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life
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Maya Angelou |
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falli..
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resilience
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Maya Angelou |
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Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word , not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.
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Maya Angelou |
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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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travel
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Maya Angelou |
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Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.
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Maya Angelou |
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We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.
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Maya Angelou |
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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 chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the..
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racism
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Maya Angelou |
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A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out to us, clearly, forcefully, Come, you may stand upon my Back and face your distant destiny, But seek no haven in my shadow. I will give you no hiding place down here. Y..
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Maya Angelou |
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The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
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Maya Angelou |
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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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self-pity
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Maya Angelou |
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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youth
heart
belief
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