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Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.
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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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I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.
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Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
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It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.
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My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
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Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.
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I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.
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At our best, we are all teachers
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Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance.
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I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.
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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
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Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?
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We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.
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It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
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I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are.
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Poetry gave me back my voice.
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