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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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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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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
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We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
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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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Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
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On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
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The intensity with which young people live demands that they blank out as often as possible.
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The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.
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I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
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I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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