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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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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.
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Love is a condition so powerful it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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Being a woman is hard work.
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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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I am the dream and the hope of the slave
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Hope is born again in the faces of children.
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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
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