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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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St. Louis
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
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Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.
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Live life as if it were created just for you.
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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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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
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Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.
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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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