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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
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 refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
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The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.
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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
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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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Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.
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Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.
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To those who have given up on love: I say, Trust life a little bit.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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