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Quote by Maya Angelou
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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

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

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. – Maya Angelou

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good
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Maya Angelou
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou

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Home
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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. – Maya Angelou

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Homecoming
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Other Quotes from
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I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office. – Thomas Jefferson

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Men

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. – Frederick Douglass

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Men

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again. – Mike Tyson

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Men

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. – Plato

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Men

Random Quotes

I dont like nostalgia unless its mine. – Lou Reed

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Remembrance

America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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Professionalism

Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short. – Dick Butkus

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Sports :: Football

The future and eternity are two entirely different things. – Doug Coupland

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Future