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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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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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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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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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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again. They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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Tell the truth and not the facts.
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