Tag: Maya Angelou
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If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
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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Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
Maya Angelou
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I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‘I’d like to write about that.’ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.
Maya Angelou
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Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
Maya Angelou
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Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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