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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.
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It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.
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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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And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, Can I be of help?
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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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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I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
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Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
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We are all human therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.
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