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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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 I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
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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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I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
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Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
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Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
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Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.
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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.
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Tell the truth and not the facts.
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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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