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Poetry gave me back my voice.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.
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Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
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I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.
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Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.
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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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Thank you, always say thank you it's the greatest gift you can give someone because thank you is what you say to God.
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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.
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I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.
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When we know better, we do better.
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I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.
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