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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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Marguerite Annie Johnson
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
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Love is a condition so powerful it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.
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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
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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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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
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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 don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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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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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
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