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The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness.
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She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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humor
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Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.
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This bed yawns beneath the weight of our absent selves.
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loneliness
drifting-apart
yawn
bed
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Preach it, I say preach it.
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My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
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motherhood
family
education
inspirational-love
upbringing
mother
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When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life? Did I learn to be kinder, To be more patient, And more generous, More loving, More ready to laugh, And more easy to accept honest tears? If I accept ..
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This is the role of the mother. And in that visit I really saw clearly, for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and also cuddles... but because in an interesting and and maybe an eerie and other worldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known.
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mothers
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You said to lean on your arm And I am leaning You said to trust in your love And I am trusting You said to call on your name And I am calling I'm stepping out on your word
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I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.
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Maya Angelou |
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Water isn't shaped like a river or ocean; it mists invisibly against metal and glass
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Maya Angelou |
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I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.
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Maya Angelou |
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I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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Maya Angelou |
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Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us. We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired t..
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Maya Angelou |
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There was a possibility that God really did love me, me Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the gravity and grandeur of it all. I knew that if God loved me, then I could do wonderful things, I could try great things, learn anything, achieve anything. For what could stand against me, since one person, with God, constitutes the majority?
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Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily
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maya-angelou-quote
mom-me-mom
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We must re-create an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves. If we persist in self-disrespect and then ask our children to respect themselves, it is as if we break all their bones and then insist that they win Olympic gold medals for the hundred-yard dash. Outrageous.
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Maya Angelou |
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Still I rise" 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. 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? Should..
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Maya Angelou |
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The fog wasn't simply the steamy vapors off the bay caught and penned in by hills, but a soft breath of anonymity that shrouded and cushioned the bashful traveler.
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Maya Angelou |
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Still I Rise 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..
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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? Shou..
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Maya Angelou |
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Still I Rise 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. 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? Shoulde..
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Maya Angelou |
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Although I enjoyed and respected Kipling, Poe, Butler, Thackeray and Henley, I saved my young and loyal passion for Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois' "Litany at Atlanta." But it was Shakespeare who said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a state with which I felt myself most familiar."
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Maya Angelou |
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
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Maya Angelou |
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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Maya Angelou |
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Maya Angelou |
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Maya Angelou |
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How important it is to recognise and consider our heroes and she-roes.
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Maya Angelou |
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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Maya Angelou |
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It is possible and imperative that we discover A brave and startling truth.
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