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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?
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You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.
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Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.
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People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
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If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
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There is no place where God is not.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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