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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

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 believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.
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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
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Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.
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Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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