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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.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.
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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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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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The future is plump with promise.
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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
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Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
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I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.
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