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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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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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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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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
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Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
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Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
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