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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. "
Maya Angelou
Great
Song
Dance
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" The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled. "
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" Achievement brings its own anticlimax. "
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" The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. "
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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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" How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times. "
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" I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them. "
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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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Art
Writing
" I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. "
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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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Me
" All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. "
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Same
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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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Nothing
Knowing
" 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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Child
Habit
" I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings. "
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Matters
Matter
" 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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" Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. "
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Hope
Love
" Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness. "
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Women
Trying
" In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. "
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Love
See
" Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. "
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Children
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" Life loves the liver of it. "
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Life
" I became the kind of parent my mother was to me. "
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Mother
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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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" I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. "
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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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" 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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Earth
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" Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. "
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Travel
" 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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" At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself. "
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