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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

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Don't face the day until you've faced God.

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I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

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Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.

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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

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Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

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Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

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Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

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The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

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All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

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I know why the caged bird sings.

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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We are more alike than unalike.

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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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When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

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I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

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Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

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