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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.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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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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I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.
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Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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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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Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.
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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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