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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.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.
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There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?
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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.
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I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.
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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
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Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.
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Freedom is never free.
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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
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