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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
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 are only as blind as we want to be.
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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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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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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
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My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.
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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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We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.
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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
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Success is loving life and daring to live it.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
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Freedom is never free.
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And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
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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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Yet it is only love which sets us free.
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I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.
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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
Maya Angelou
