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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.
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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!
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On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
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'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.
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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
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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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There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends
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It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
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We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.
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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
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Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.
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