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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
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Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
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Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.
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If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
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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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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
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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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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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Being a woman is hard work.
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