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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
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" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "
Maya Angelou
Blues
Poetry
Music
" I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. "
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World
Young
Love
" Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity. "
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" My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. "
Maya Angelou
Me
Practice
Night
" 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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Look
Home
" 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. "
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Fool
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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 almost choke when I think about myself. "
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Great
Song
Dance
" I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. "
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Knowledge
Loss
More
" Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. "
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Opportunity
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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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Best
Age
Good
" In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it. "
Maya Angelou
Singer
Church
Long
" If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. "
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Solitary
Fantasy
Lucky
" I believe that every person is born with talent. "
Maya Angelou
Born
I Believe
Person
" The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. "
Maya Angelou
Comfort
Food
Chicken
" Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. "
Maya Angelou
Anger
Cancer
Clean
" 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
" I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life. "
Maya Angelou
Myself
My Life
Know
" 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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People
Living
Black
" It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. "
Maya Angelou
Justice
Impossible
Struggle
" I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too. "
Maya Angelou
Myself
Too
Respect
" 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. "
Maya Angelou
Mind
Search
Think
" Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness. "
Maya Angelou
Help
Women
Trying
" I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala! "
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" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "
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Poetry
Art
Writing
" It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race. "
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Know
Important
Door
" There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. "
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Loving
Life
Greedy
" 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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Know
Me
Thankful
" Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. "
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Back
Rights
Dreams
" I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me. "
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Life
God
Live
" 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.' "
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Heaven
Good
Earth