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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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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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A mother's love liberates.
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Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
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Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.
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jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.
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I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.
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Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
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