Maya Angelou
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“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” -Maya Angelou
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“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
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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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“For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.” -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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“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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“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.” -Maya Angelou
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“While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.” -Maya Angelou
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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” -Maya Angelou
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“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.” -Maya Angelou
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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.” -Maya Angelou
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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” -Maya Angelou
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“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.” -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 loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’” -Maya Angelou
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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.” -Maya Angelou
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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” -Maya Angelou
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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.” -Maya Angelou
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” -Maya Angelou
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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.” -Maya Angelou
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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.” -Maya Angelou
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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.” -Maya Angelou
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“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” -Maya Angelou
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“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.” -Maya Angelou
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“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.” -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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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” -Maya Angelou
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou
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“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” -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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