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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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Comedian
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Human Rights Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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Life loves the person who dares to live it.
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.
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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!
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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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Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.
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A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.
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jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
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At our best, we're all teachers
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The country didn't get that way in a week we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.
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