American - Poet | April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
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All great achievements require time.
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We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
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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.
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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.'
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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