All Maya Angelou Quotes
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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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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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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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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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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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
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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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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
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