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Dr. Maya Angelou [1928-2014]
 | Dr. Maya Angelou was an American poet and civil rights activist. She received over fifty honorary degrees, a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, three Grammy Awards for her spoken word albums, the National Medal of Arts in 2000, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. |
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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. {Issue #43}
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. {blog 4/2010 & 10/2011}
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage
doesn't need to be lived again. {blog 6/2011}
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. {blog 7/2011 & 4/2015}
You want me to do something? Tell me [that] I can't do it. {blog 4/2012}
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it. {blog 10/2012}
Don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer. {blog 11/2012}
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope. {blog 1/2013}
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. {blog 3/2014}
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. {blog 8/2014}
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. {blog 9/2014}
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. {blog 9/2014}
Nothing will work unless you do. {blog 5/2015}
This a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before. {blog 6/2015}
Do the best [that] you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. {blog 12/2015}
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. {blog 7/2017}
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. {blog 9/2017}
You may not be able to control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. {blog 11/2017}
The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor, and style. {blog 4/2018}
Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet. {blog 6/2018}
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. {blog 8/2019}
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented.
So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise. {blog 5/2022}
Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. {blog 11/2022}
A friend may be waiting behind a strangers face. {blog 3/2023}
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart. {blog 3/2023}
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