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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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You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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