Maya Angelou Quotes
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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
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For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly,
but rarely admit the changes
it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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I can be changed by what happens to me.
But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
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If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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When you learn, teach.
When you get, give.
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I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
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I know
why the caged bird sings.