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" Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. "
Maya Angelou
Eats
Anything
Host
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" Achievement brings its own anticlimax. "
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" If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity. "
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" My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. "
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" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "
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" We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. "
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" I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. "
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" I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then. "
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" Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. "
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" The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. "
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" Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more. "
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Little
More
" I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing. "
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Writing
" There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. "
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" We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike. "
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Other
" I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. "
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World
Young
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" Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace. "
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" Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart. "
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" Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility. "
Maya Angelou
Run
Humility
Hell
" I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.' "
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" I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to. "
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" The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. "
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" The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. "
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" If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. "
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" If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. "
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" At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself. "
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" The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. "
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" Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. "
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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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" If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. "
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" The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. "
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