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Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
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Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.
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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.
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Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
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The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.
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The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.
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I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.
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If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.
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At our best, we're all teachers
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I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
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