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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.
The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
There is something more -- the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.
You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.