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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, we have overcome.
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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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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
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