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Quotes by Maya Angelou

I can be changed by what happened to me.  I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou
 
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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Maya Angelou
Source: Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings: a casebook‎ - Page 154 by Joanne M. Braxton, Maya Angelou
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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Maya Angelou
Source: The New York Times, August 25, 1991
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A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ that a man should have to seek Him first to find her.

Maya Angelou
 
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by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.

Maya Angelou
 
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Seek patience
and passion
in equal amounts.
 
Patience alone
will not build the temple.
 
Passion alone
will destroy its walls.

Maya Angelou
 
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Maya Angelou
Source: Phenomenal Woman
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.  Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.

Maya Angelou
 
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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou
 
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.

Maya Angelou
 
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