If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Maya Angelou
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About Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the ag…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Maya AngelouMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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.
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.
Life loves the liver of it.
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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.
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.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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.
All great achievements require time.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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.
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.