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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.
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It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.
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I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
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People will never forget how you made them feel.
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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.
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Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
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The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does
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