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Famous Maya Angelou Quotes
“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
“To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.”
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
“We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.”
“I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.”
“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.”
“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
“The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.”
“I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.”
“It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
“At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.”
“Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.”
“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.”