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Poetry gave me back my voice.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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St. Louis
Missouri
Marguerite Annie Johnson
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I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.
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People will never forget how you made them feel.
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You build your 'COURAGE MUSCLE' daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right.
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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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Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.
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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
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Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
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It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.
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To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
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The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.
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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.
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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.
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When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
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We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.
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Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.
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