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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'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.
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Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
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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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Freedom is never free.
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All great acheivements require time.
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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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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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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