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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.
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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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.
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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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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.
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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
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Life loves the person who dares to live it.
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If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.
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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
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The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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Reality has changed chameleonlike before my eyes so many times that I have learned, or am learning, to trust almost anything except what appears to be so.
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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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No one has ever become poor from giving.
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
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