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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

From Maya Angelou

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

From Maya Angelou

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

From Maya Angelou

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

From Maya Angelou

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

From Maya Angelou

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

From Maya Angelou

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

From Maya Angelou

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

From Maya Angelou

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

From Maya Angelou

I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

From Maya Angelou

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