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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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Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.
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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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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
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Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'
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No one can take the place of a friend, no one.
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Everything costs and costs the earth.
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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.
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We are only as blind as we want to be.
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