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I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.


Maya Rudolph

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MAYA ANGELOU I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.
MAYA ANGELOU If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth...
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacr...
MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any...
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
MAYA ANGELOU Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very...
MAYA ANGELOU I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k...
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its disple...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying t...
MAYA ANGELOU To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what y...
MAYA LIN Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
MAYA ANGELOU We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just ...
MAYA ANGELOU The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
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