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Shakespeare must be a black girl.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage to trust that courage and build bridges with it to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.
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Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
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