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I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.
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When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
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Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.
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It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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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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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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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
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