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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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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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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
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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'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
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Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
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