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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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If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
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Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.
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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.
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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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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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Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.
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I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.
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There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends
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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.
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The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.
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I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
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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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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
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I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.
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