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Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!
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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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Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.
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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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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
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I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.
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I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.
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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
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