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Shakespeare must be a black girl.

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
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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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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.
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Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.
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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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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.
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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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People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
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I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.
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Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
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