If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

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If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

-- 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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Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, ‘Children’s Letters to God.’ You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, ‘Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.’

-- Maya Angelou

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My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

-- Maya Angelou

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The ache for home lives in all of us. –

-- Maya Angelou

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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

-- Maya Angelou

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