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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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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
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There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
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Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
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jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.
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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
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No one has ever become poor from giving.
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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.
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I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.
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