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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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Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
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Every Day you should reach out and touch someone
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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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Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.
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Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
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It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '
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We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.
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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
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You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.
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