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Don't face the day until you've faced God.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
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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 believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.
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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
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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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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.
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A mother's love liberates.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
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When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?
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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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'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling.
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.
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