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Maya Angelou

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.

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alone

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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anger

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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attitude

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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beauty

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

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change

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

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change

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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courage

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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courage

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

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courage

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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courage

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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education

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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future

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

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god

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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good

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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great

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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great

All great achievements require time.

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great

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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great

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

-Maya Angelou

history

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

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home

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

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home

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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hope

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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hope

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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learning

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 something back.

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learning

Life loves the liver of it.

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life

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 something back.

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life

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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life

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

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life

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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life

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

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life

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

-Maya Angelou

love

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

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love

Maya Angelou

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.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

All great achievements require time.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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.

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 something back.

Life loves the liver of it.

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 something back.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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