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

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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Forgive yourself - no one else will.
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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.
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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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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
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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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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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