"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!"

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Source : Maya Angelou (1994). “Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women”, Random House Incorporated

Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes

“For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court”
“We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.”
“One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.”

Source : John Andrew Rice (2014). “I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century”, p.112, Univ of South Carolina Press
“I'm a person who goes by what I feel like and almost no one can tell me what to do. It's always self-motivation.”
“But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.”
“Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.”

Source : Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”

Source : Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

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