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" I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done. "
Maya Angelou
Done
Dog
Hot
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" Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. "
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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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" Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself. "
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" How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! "
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" Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. "
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" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "
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" Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. "
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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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" I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. "
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" There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. "
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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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" If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things. "
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Mother
More
" Life loves the liver of it. "
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" Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. "
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" A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. "
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" If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. "
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" I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all. "
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" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "
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" I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth. "
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New
Earth
Forever
" I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient. "
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" When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter. "
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" Nothing will work unless you do. "
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" In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it. "
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" I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. "
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" I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' "
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" Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things. "
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" I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. "
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" It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it. "
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" History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. "
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" In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it. "
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