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And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Comedian
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Film Director
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Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Novelist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
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I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
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The future is plump with promise.
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Don't face the day until you've faced God.
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.
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Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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Have enough courage to love.
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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
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Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
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