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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.
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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.
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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
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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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It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.
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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.
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If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.
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I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.
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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
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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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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.
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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.
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