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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a 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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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
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When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
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Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
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We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
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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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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
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You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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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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I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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