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Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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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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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
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There is no place where God is not.
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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
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When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?
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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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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.
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The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.
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Don't let the man bring you down.
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
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No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.
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