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Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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St. Louis
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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
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A mother's love liberates.
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Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.
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The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.
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When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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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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Poetry gave me back my voice.
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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
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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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