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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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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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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
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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 write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
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Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.
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Life loves the person who dares to live it.
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It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
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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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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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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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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.
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