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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, Don't do that, baby. And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.
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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
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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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If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
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Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
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Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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