Tag: Maya Angelou
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
Maya Angelou
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It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
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Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‘Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.’ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
Maya Angelou
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Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.
Maya Angelou
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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don’t allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.
Maya Angelou
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’
Maya Angelou
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.
Maya Angelou
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
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Effective action is always unjust.
Maya Angelou
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou