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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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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.
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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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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
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