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Everybody is worth everything.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
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You never get over the fear of writing.
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I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
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The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.
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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.
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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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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
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If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
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Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.
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I try to see every day as a celebration.
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