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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.
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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'
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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
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Everything costs and costs the earth.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
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The future is plump with promise.
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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
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I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.
Maya Angelou
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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