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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. "
Maya Angelou
Magazine
Live
Different
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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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" My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. "
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" My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. "
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" If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. "
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" I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life. "
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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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" I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. "
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" I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me. "
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" I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard. "
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" Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. "
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Youth
Wine
Independence
" If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same. "
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Kid
People
Now
" If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. "
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Self
Respect
" We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. "
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Love
Climb
Mountains
" The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free. "
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Us
Truth Is
" 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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White
Children
Race
" At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family. "
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Life
Brother
" One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. "
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People
Swimming
Music
" The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. "
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Black
Me
Hope
" The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. "
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" It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it. "
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Anything
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Reality
" Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops. "
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Drops
Life
" Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. "
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Talent
Children
Ignorance
" And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. "
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You
" As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. "
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Women
" I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to. "
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Know
" I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading. "
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Person
Book
Write
" I created myself. I have taught myself so much. "
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Myself
Taught
Created
" Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. "
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Dreams
" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "
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" Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity. "
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Born
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Creativity