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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.
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Live life as if it were created just for you.
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
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Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.
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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
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Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters. We are our brothers and sisters
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
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