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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.
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If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.
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Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.
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Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.
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Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.
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I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
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A single fantasy can transform a million realities.
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Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.
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