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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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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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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
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It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
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I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.
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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.
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I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.
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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.
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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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Age is nothing waking up is everything.
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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
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