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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
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 may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
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We are all human therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.
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I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.
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I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.
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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
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It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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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 want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.
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