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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
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To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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Age is nothing waking up is everything.
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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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Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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