MAMaya Angelou

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Maya Angelou

Life dates: 1928 AD — 2014 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1971 AD

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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02c. 1971 AD

It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).

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03c. 1971 AD

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

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04c. 1971 AD

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

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05c. 1971 AD

If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

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06c. 1971 AD

We write for the same reason that we walk , talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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07c. 1971 AD

We need much less than we think we need.

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08c. 1971 AD

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

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09c. 1971 AD

There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream.

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10c. 1971 AD

They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.

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11c. 1971 AD

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

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12c. 1971 AD

I want you to write down your blessings.

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13c. 1971 AD

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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14c. 1971 AD

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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15c. 1971 AD

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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16c. 1971 AD

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

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17c. 1971 AD

Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

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18c. 1971 AD

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.

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19c. 1971 AD

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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20c. 1971 AD

If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

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21c. 1971 AD

I'll never know why it was important to him that the couple (he said it later that he'd never seen them before) would take a picture of the whole Mr. Johnson back to Little Rock.He must have been tired of being crippled, as prisoners tire of penitentiary bars and the guilty tire of blame. The high topped shoes and the cane, his uncontrollable muscles and thick tongue, and the looks he suffered of either contempt or pity had simply worn him out, and for one afternoon, one part of an afternoon, he wanted no part of them.I understood and felt closer to him at that moment than ever before or since.

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22c. 1971 AD

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

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23c. 1971 AD

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

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24c. 1971 AD

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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