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Forgive yourself - no one else will.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
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There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
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I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
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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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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
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Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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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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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.
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This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.
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