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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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 am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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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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Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
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Hope is born again in the faces of children.
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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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