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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'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
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I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love.
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Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.
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We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.
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Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.
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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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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
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The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does
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