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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.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.
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Facts can obscure the truth.
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Life loves the liver of it.
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We are all human therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.
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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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I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
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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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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.
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I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
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Have enough courage to love.
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I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.
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Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
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