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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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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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Forgive yourself - no one else will.
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A mother's love liberates.
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
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Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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