The first thing i do in the morning when i awaken is say, 'thank you, lord!' i'm grateful to be alive, and i'm going to try to tell the truth as well as i know and tell it as eloquently as i can so that people can hear it.
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What i think it really means is: i'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because i want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'i never thought of that before.' and i think, 'i've got them!'
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Each time i write a book, every time i face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time i think, uh oh, theyre going to find out now. Ive run a game on everybody and theyre going to find me out.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.
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When i love somebody, i like him to be around; i like him to take me out to dinner; i like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, i love him and i hope he's looking at the same sun i am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after i was 50 or 60.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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It's still scary every time i go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When i get there, i remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When i write, i get all the weeping out.
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's sizebut when i start to tell them,they think i'm telling lies.I say,it's in the reach of my armsthe span of my hips,the stride of my step,the curl of my lips.I'm a womanphenomenally.Phenomenal woman,that's me.
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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 need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.
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On the day of your birth, the creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
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I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' to love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'i forbid you from loving this person'?
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.
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The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, i have found security and assurance.
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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than i am, and that is god itself.
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I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the american psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.
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Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.
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If the door has been opened and i've been invited, or if i'm not invited and i somehow know i'm supposed to go in there, i put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before i go in. I try to show some respect of the place i'm going into.
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Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.
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As far as i knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, black men desired them and black women worked for them.
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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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I write because i am a black woman, listening attentively to her people.
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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
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I know something better is on the road for me.
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A mother's love liberates.
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You can never be great at anything unless you love it.
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You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: in an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.
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Out of the huts of history's shame i rise up from a past that's rooted in pain i rise i'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling i bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear i rise into a daybreak that's wondrously clear i rise bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, i am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise i rise i rise.
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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'i love you. I love you if you're in china. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so i love you. Go.'
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.
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Of course, there are those critics - new york critics as a rule - who say, 'well, maya angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' those are the ones i want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
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Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, i believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!
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Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Dont do that. Some day well be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.
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I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and i have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and i with my age encountered the same difficulty, i would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what i encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.
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Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
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Naturally, if you love somebody, you do want to see their face every now and again, but that's not a condition of your love. People often get possession mixed up with love, and they say, "if you really loved me, you would call me." how - when life is going on? I think of you all the time, and the thought of you always lifts my spirits. But i'm not right at the phone!
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I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.
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I've lived many places on the planet, and i still have friends in many places.
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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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Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.
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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... Please. You don't just see it in america. It's all over the world.
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Mostly, what i have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: do it. By all means, do it.
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It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.
Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
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Lift up your eyes upon this day breaking for you. Give birth again to the dream. Women, children, men, take it into the palms of your hands. Mold it into the shape of your most private need. Sculpt it into the image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts each new hour holds new chances for a new beginning.
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
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