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Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
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I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.
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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.
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I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Poetry gave me back my voice.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
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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.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.
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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
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