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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Johnson
Marguerite Ann Johnson
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You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.
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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.
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In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
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The needs of a society determine its ethics.
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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
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I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
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Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.
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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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Effective action is always unjust.
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
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I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
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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 work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.
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I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better
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