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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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Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
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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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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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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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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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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
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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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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
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You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.
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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.
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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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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
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When we know better, we do better.
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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
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