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" I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do. "
Maya Angelou
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Will
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" All great achievements require time. "
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" I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever. "
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" My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult. "
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" I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them. "
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" I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala! "
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" Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play. "
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" I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. "
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" Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. "
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" Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. "
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" One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping. "
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" Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. "
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" My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. "
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" I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. "
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" When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. "
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" Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.' "
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" Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years. "
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" The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society. "
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