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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.
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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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Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.
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People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.
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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.
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We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
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Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.
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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.
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And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
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Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.
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I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
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It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
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Don't bring negative to my door.
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The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.
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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
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Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
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People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.
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