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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.
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Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
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I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
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The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope.
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It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.
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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.
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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
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