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Letter "M" » Maya Angelou Quotes
«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.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
accept, cry, in return, laugh, much as, return, somebody, Somebody to Love
«women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible and live long lives»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
as much as possible, get tough, long-lived, much as, tender, tenders, tough
«There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.»
«History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.»
«life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy»
«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.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
consistently, erratically, practice, virtue, virtues
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
affluent, ascend, ascends, attributed, attributing, beings, descends, existence, existence of God, human beings, interesting, material, meanest, poorest, responsibility, scale, scaled, scaling, standard, style, the existence of God
«You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.»
«A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Singers and singing
| Keywords:
answer, bird, has a, sing, sings, song
«In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.»
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