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Freedom is never free.
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'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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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
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When we know better, we do better.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.
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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
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I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
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Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
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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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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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