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Maya Angelou Inspirational Quotes (571)

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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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I come as one, but stand as 10,000.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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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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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
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If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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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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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
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I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.
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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
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We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.
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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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