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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.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.
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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.
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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.
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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
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First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.
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When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
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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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Life loves the liver of it.
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It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.
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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
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If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.
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