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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.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
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Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
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There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?
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A mother's love liberates.
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Facts can obscure the truth.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.
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Inscribed on the temple of Apollo
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.
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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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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
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Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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