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Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.
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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
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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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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
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It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.
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Thank you, always say thank you it's the greatest gift you can give someone because thank you is what you say to God.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
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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 think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.
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I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on.
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
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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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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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