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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate April 4, 1928

Zodiac Aries

Location St. Louis, Missouri

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Life loves the liver of it.

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I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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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.

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.

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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

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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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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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When Great Trees Fall

Maya Angelou

When great trees fall,

rocks on distant hills shudder,

lions hunker down

in tall grasses,

and even elephants

lumber after safety.

When great trees fall

in forests,

small things recoil into silence,

their senses

eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,

the air around us becomes

light, rare, sterile.

We breathe, briefly.

Our eyes, briefly,

see with

a hurtful clarity.

Our memory, suddenly sharpened,

examines,

gnaws on kind words

unsaid,

promised walks

never taken.

Great souls die and

our reality, bound to

them, takes leave of us.

Our souls,

dependent upon their

nurture,

now shrink, wizened.

Our minds, formed

and informed by their

radiance,

fall away.

We are not so much maddened

as reduced to the unutterable ignorance

of dark, cold

caves.

And when great souls die,

after a period peace blooms,

slowly and always

irregularly. Spaces fill

with a kind of

soothing electric vibration.

Our senses, restored, never

to be the same, whisper to us.

They existed. They existed.

We can be. Be and be

better. For they existed.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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