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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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Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, Don't do that, baby. And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.
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You may be pretty or plain, heavy or thin, gay or straight, poor or rich. But remember this: In an election, every voice is equally powerful -- don't underestimate your vote. Voting is the great equalizer.
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I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
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We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.
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Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.
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I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
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I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.
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