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"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
"For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph."
"Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
Explore more quotes by Maya Angelou
"All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike."
"The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration."
"Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only large ships and some engines are described favourably by using the female pronoun-how did I get to be Maya Angelou?"
"Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom."
"That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home."
"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."
"I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use."
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
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