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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
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You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.
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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
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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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I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, we have overcome.
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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
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When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
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