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The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.
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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.
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Don't let the man bring you down.
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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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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.
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