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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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On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
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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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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
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We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
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Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.
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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
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We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.
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