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Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
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
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.
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When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
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I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
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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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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.
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There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
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Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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Forgive yourself - no one else will.
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