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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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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
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I try to see every day as a celebration.
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
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Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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When we know better, we do better.
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There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.
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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.
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Don't let the man bring you down.
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The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.
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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
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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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Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
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There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends
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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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