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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
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I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.
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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
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Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
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In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.
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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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