Tag: Maya Angelou
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Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou
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I got my own back.
Maya Angelou
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
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In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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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If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.
Maya Angelou
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
Maya Angelou