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Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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We are only as blind as we want to be.
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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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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.
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If a person - any human being - is told often enough, You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you, the person finally begins to believe it.
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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.
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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.
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