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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
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In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.
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Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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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 am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
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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. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.
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I try to see every day as a celebration.
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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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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 don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.
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I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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