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Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
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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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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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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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