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Don't let the man bring you down.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Autobiographer
Comedian
Dancer
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Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
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Novelist
Playwright
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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The future is plump with promise.
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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
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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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Live life as if it were created just for you.
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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
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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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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
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Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.
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