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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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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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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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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.
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I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again. They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time.
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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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It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.
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We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.
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You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
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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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I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!
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