Maya Angelou - If you don't like something, change it. If...

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Biography

Author Profession: Poet

Nationality: American

Born: April 4, 1928

Died: May 28, 2014

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Related Authors

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, e. e. cummings

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Attitude, Change, Like, Something, You, Your

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