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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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
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Marguerite Anne Johnson
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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.
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I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
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Facts can obscure the truth.
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