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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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Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.
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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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