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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
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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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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. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
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I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.
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Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.
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People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.
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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.
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No one has ever become poor from giving.
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Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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