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We are only as blind as we want to be.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
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Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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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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What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'
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I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.
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Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
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It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
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