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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.
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The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.
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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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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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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.
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