Tag: 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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I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.
Maya Angelou
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
Maya Angelou
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
Maya Angelou
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Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.
Maya Angelou
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
Maya Angelou
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
Maya Angelou
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Maya Angelou
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
Maya Angelou
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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou