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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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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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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.
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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
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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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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
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Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.
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Don't let the man bring you down.
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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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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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.
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