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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.
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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.
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I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.
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No one has ever become poor from giving.
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If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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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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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.
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