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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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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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Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.
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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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On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.
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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.
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There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.
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Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.
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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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Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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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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