Tag: Maya Angelou
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I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.
Maya Angelou
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If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Maya Angelou
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
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I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.
Maya Angelou
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When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’
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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It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya Angelou
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I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
Maya Angelou
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
Maya Angelou
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‘I write for money.’ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
Maya Angelou