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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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Shakespeare must be a black girl.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.
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A mother's love liberates.
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It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.
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The desire to reach hearts is wise
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When I love somebody, I like him to be around I like him to take me out to dinner I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60.
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We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
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I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
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