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It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.
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I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.
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A mother's love liberates.
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
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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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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.
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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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