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Responsibility
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Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
-Maya Angelou
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Role models
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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.
-Maya Angelou
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Smile
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.
-Maya Angelou
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Solitude
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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Stubbornness
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...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
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.
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Talent
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I believe that every person is born with talent.
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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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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
-Maya Angelou
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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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Work
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Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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Books by and about Maya Angelou