“All great achievements require time.”
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Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she earned the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Source: Wikipedia
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“All great achievements require time.”
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“Nothing will work unless you do.”
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“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.”
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“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exact...”
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
“Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads...”
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”
“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
“It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”
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“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the m...”
“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
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“To those who are given much, much is expected.”
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“There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.”
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“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”
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“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
“Caged Bird A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange suns rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks...”
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“It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.”
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“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
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“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom?...”
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