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I try to see every day as a celebration.
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 have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.
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The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.
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Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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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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The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does
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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
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Troubles are a blessing that force you to change, to believe.
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Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.
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Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River.
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