Maya Angelou
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
I know why the caged bird sings.
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
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I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
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