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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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By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the dumb to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.
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You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.
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I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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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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Inscribed on the temple of Apollo
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Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
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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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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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Being a woman is hard work.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.
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A single fantasy can transform a million realities.
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.
Maya Angelou
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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