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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.
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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.
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Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.
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A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.
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When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.
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