"Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope."
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"I have heard it said that winter, too, will pass, that spring is a sign that summer is due at last. See, all we have to do is hang on."
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"You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell.""
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"People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work."
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"People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts."
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"Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds."
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"There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet."
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"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full."
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"The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world."
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"But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less."
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"When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?"
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"It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself."
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other."
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"One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else."
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"Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure."
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"I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted."
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"Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure."
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"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing."
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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 don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'"
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