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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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Marguerite Annie Johnson
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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.
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Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
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We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.
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You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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The intensity with which young people live demands that they blank out as often as possible.
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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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When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?
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