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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.
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Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
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Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
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I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.
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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.
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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
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