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Live life as if it were created just for you.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Film Director
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
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My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.
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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.'
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Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.
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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
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You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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A mother's love liberates.
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I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, we have overcome.
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I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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