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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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Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, Don't do that, baby. And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.
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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.
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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
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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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As a nurse, we have the opportunity to heal the heart, mind, soul and body of our patients, their families and ourselves. They may not remember your name but they will never forget the way you made them feel.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
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I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me.
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
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Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
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