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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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Human Rights Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.
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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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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
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The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.
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Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
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We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.
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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.
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Being a woman is hard work.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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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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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
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If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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