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Maya Angelou Quotes

«this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Life | Keywords: Good Thing, one time, This Is
«The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.»
«If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.»
«You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.»
«When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift»
«I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.»
«I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Home | Keywords: at home, home, human being, wherever
«everything has rhythm. everything dances.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: dances, rhythm, rhythm and
«Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.»
«I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.»

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