Maya Angelou - Love Quotes

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Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving.

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.

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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

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Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
A Brave and Startling Truth.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and be told, I am with you kid. Let's go!

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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

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I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

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We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

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I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one
who will give the air
from his failing lungs
for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

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Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

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Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone.
Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him.
He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance.
Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that.
He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

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We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

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Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind.

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Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

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Petulant priests, greedy
centurions, and one million
incensed gestures stand
between your love and me.

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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

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I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you.

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