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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
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Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.
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The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.
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A single fantasy can transform a million realities.
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.
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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.
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