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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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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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My mother raised me, and then freed me.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
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I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
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A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
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My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
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Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
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