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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
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When we know better, we do better.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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