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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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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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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
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Have enough courage to love.
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When we know better, we do better.
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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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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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
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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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Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
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Age is nothing waking up is everything.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
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When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
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