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" My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine. "
Maya Angelou
Blessing
Birth
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" Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. "
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" The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. "
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" Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. "
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" All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. "
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" Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole. "
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" The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. "
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" I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient. "
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" Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. "
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" 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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" 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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" I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me. "
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" I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. "
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" Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. "
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" I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing. "
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" You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.' "
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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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" I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96. "
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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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" I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. "
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" If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent. "
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