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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.
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 Annie Johnson
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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.
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No one has ever become poor from giving.
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Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.
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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
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If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
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