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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
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
Marguerite Ann Johnson
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Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.
Maya Angelou
I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.
Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
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Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.
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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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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Maya Angelou
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
Maya Angelou
If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
Maya Angelou
I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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