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Quote by Maya Angelou
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a histori

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou

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

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Life
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God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope. – Maya Angelou

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Hope
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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. – Maya Angelou

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Beauty
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Other Quotes from
Black History
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There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. – Harriet Tubman, on her first escape from slavery, 1845

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Black History

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Random Quotes

Dont be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. – Dale Carnegie

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Things, Little Things

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? – James Thomson

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amazing

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current. – Willa Sibert Cather

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Sky & Clouds

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel. – Juliet Stevenson

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Travel