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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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Comedian
Dancer
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Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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Freedom
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Never

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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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Facts can obscure the truth.
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I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.
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Tell the truth and not the facts.
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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.
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Hope is born again in the faces of children.
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If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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