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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again. They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.
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I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.
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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.
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