“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
― Maya Angelou
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“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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.”
― Maya Angelou
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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou
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“If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”
― Maya Angelou
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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.”
― Maya Angelou
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“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
― Maya Angelou
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“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
― Maya Angelou
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“The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”
― Maya Angelou
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“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. ”
― Maya Angelou
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“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it;
to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.”
― Maya Angelou
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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.”
― Maya Angelou
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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.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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.”
― Maya Angelou
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