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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Have enough courage to love.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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No one has ever become poor from giving.
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Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.
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Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.
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Everything costs and costs the earth.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage to trust that courage and build bridges with it to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.
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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
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You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
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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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Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
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This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.
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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
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I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
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