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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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By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was indulgent never. Kind, yes, permissive, never. In her world, people she accepted paddled their own canoes, pulled their own weight, put their own shoulders to their own plows and pushed like hell.
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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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Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.
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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.
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I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
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A mother's love liberates.
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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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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.
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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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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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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
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Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.
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A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
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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 want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.
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