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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 the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
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I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.
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We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
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Effective action is always unjust.
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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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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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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
Maya Angelou
