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When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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I know why the caged bird sings.
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'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.
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Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.
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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.
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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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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
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Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
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Everything costs and costs the earth.
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This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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