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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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The intensity with which young people live demands that they blank out as often as possible.
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If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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A single fantasy can transform a million realities.
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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.
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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 never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.
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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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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
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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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