American - Poet | April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014
Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'
Maya Angelou
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I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.
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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.
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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.
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What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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