Maya Angelou Quotes

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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

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"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."

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"All great achievements require time."

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"All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened."

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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."

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"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."

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"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."

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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

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"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."

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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."

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"Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."

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"Effective action is always unjust."

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"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

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"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"

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"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."