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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.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
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Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.
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In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.
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If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
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