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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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The intensity with which young people live demands that they blank out as often as possible.
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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
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Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.
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Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
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