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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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You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them.
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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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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
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I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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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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My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.
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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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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.
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Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'
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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.
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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.
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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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You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.
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