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Maya Angelou
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“Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.”
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“They may not remember what you said. They may not remember what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”
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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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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
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“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
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“All great achievements require time.”
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“All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.”
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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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“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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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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“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it”
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“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
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“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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“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
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“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
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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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“Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.”
— Maya Angelou
Context:
Her last tweet
Source:
https://twitter.com/DrMayaAngelou/status/469911477500272642
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“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
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“Life loves the liver of it.”
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“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
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