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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.
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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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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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A single fantasy can transform a million realities.
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I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.
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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.
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Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.
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