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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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St. Louis
Missouri
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To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.
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This conference ? of, for and about women ? is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else.
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On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.
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I wouldn't trade anything for my story now.
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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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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