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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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Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
Marguerite Anne Johnson
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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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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
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I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.
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