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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can 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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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.
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