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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.
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 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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Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
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I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.
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Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
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I am the dream and the hope of the slave
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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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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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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
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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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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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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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I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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Life loves the person who dares to live it.
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