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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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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
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I am the dream and the hope of the slave
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There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.
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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.
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I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.
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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
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We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
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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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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.
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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
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