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Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.
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 was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.
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I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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The desire to reach hearts is wise
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I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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A single fantasy can transform a million realities.
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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
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I try to see every day as a celebration.
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
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