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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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