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Maya Angelou quote: "Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross"

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Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross


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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I al...
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes...
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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistanc...
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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but...
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have th...
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All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. ...
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if t...
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complai...
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be...
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I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and...
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We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the thr...
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them sibling...
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more bl...
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoe...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go ...
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, p...
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I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be ...
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, w...
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I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into ...
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
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If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts
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A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
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My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday ev...
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know...
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I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even ...
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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
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The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
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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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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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All great achievements require time.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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