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Maya Angelou Quotes

«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.»
«When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Hope, Joy | Keywords: prosperity
«Achievement brings its own anticlimax.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | About: Achievement | Keywords: anticlimax
«Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.»
«Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.»
«I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.»
«If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: For each, self respect
«A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.»
«If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.»
«All God's children need traveling shoes.»
Author: Maya Angelou (Poet) | Keywords: Child of God, shoes, traveling

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