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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.
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If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.
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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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