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You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
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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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The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage to trust that courage and build bridges with it to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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