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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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Human Rights Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
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On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.
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Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.
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Everybody is worth everything.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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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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Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.
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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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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
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The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.
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Don't let the man bring you down.
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