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Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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I am the dream and the hope of the slave
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I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.
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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
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When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?
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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
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