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"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
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"The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start."
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Personal Development
"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."
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Personal Development
"A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well."
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Personal Development
"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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Personal Development
"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
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"Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax."
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Personal Development
"Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah..."
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"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."
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"I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'."
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Explore more quotes by Maya Angelou
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
Emotional
"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."
Attitude
"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
Life
"Nothing will work unless you do."
Motivational
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
Relationship
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
Light
"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."
Leadership
"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
Creativity
"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
Identity
"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
Creativity
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