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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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Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.
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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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