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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.
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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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