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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
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
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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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Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.
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Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
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'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.
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I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
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You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
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I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again. They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.
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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
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