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Change
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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-Maya Angelou
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Education
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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.
-Maya Angelou, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," ch. 29, 1969
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don’t think it will come back.
-Maya Angelou
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Literary
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
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Stubbornness
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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I’m not certain what the difference is, but I do know that if you butt your head against a stone wall long enough, at some point you realize the wall is stone and that your head is flesh and blood.
Said in 1979, on giving up her attempt to be named director of the television version of the first volume of her autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
-Maya Angelou, As quoted in "Reel Women" part 4, by Ally Acker
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Success & Failure
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"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
-Maya Angelou
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Time
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift.
-Maya Angelou
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Women
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A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.
-Maya Angelou
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Books by and about Maya Angelou
