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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
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Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
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To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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