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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
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Being a woman is hard work.
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The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.
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