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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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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.
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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
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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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Forgive yourself - no one else will.
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
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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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If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.
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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
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People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.
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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.
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Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.
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I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.
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Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
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