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101 " My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. "
― Maya Angelou
102 " That day, I learned that I could be a giver by simply bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word, a vote of support is a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for someone. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources. "
― Maya Angelou , Letter to My Daughter
103 " Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. "
― Maya Angelou , Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
104 " This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves. "
― Maya Angelou , The Complete Collected Poems
105 " I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you. "
― Maya Angelou , I Shall Not Be Moved
106 " 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. "
107 " Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. "
108 " I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed. "
109 " As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. "
110 " Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you. "
111 " You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.Lost, injured, hurt by chance.I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....Trying to change our nightmares into dreams... "
112 " Out of the huts of history's shameI riseUp from a past that's rooted in painI riseI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that's wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI riseI rise. "
113 " Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side. "
114 " You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I’ll rise. "
― Maya Angelou , And Still I Rise
115 " Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals. "
― Maya Angelou , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
116 " In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity. "
117 " Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. "
118 " You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for. "
119 " Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose their control. Ignorance knows no binds. Old people, young people, middle-aged, black, white, can all be ignorant. "
― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom
120 " The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? "