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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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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!
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The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
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We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.
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