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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.
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Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
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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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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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You never get over the fear of writing.
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.
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