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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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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
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I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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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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Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.
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I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
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Y’all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
Maya Angelou
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
Maya Angelou
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
Maya Angelou
