American - Poet | April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou
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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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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 got my own back.
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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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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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Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
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