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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
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I read the Bible to myself I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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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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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.
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Don't let the man bring you down.
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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
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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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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
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