Quotes by Maya Angelou
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."
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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
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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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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder - in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.
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Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
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