Maya Angelou
African-American poet and writer
Lived from: 1928 - 2014
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United States
Born: 4 april 1928 Died: 28 may 2014
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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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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ''I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.''
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
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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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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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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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You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated.
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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
― Maya Angelou
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