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To those who are given much, much is expected.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
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Live life as if it were created just for you.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.
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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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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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