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" Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. "
Maya Angelou
Book
Child
Habit
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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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" When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.' "
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" Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem. "
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Search
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" There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. "
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Loving
Life
Greedy
" I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. "
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You
Back
Hands
" You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' "
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Stand
Courage
" In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me. "
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Education
Shaped
" During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. "
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You
World
" I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. "
Maya Angelou
Myself
Fool
Hypocrite
" Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. "
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Back
Loneliness
Music
" I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles. "
Maya Angelou
Human Being
Own
Human
" If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first. "
Maya Angelou
Saying
Say
Life
" All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. "
Maya Angelou
Time
Child
Information
" I got my own back. "
Maya Angelou
My Own
Got
Back
" I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings. "
Maya Angelou
Speak
Matters
Matter
" I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely. "
Maya Angelou
Money
Black And White
People
" Life loves the liver of it. "
Maya Angelou
Loves
Liver
Life
" A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. "
Maya Angelou
Black
Racism
Struggle
" Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play. "
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Play
Party
Like
" It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. "
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Diversity
Time
Beauty
" 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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Need
Humility
Here
" I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. "
Maya Angelou
Go
Bible
Work
" The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently. "
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Without
You
Courage
" If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. "
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Die
Admit
You
" I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. "
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World
Young
Love
" I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. "
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Separate
Human
Other
" Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things. "
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Belief
Values
Material Things
" I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well. "
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Good
Blessed
Believe
" Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. "
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Anything
Host
" The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair. "
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Time
Great
Parents