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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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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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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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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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I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
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I sustain myself with the love of family.
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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Life loves the person who dares to live it.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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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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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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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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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
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We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.
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The intensity with which young people live demands that they blank out as often as possible.
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The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.
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