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Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
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When we know better, we do better.
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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.
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Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
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I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
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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Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.
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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.
Maya Angelou
I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry.
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