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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.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
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People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.
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We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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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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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
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People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
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One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.
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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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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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I am the dream and the hope of the slave
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