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Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.
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Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.
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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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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.
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In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.
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Live as though life was created for you.
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Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.
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If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
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Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.
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I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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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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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
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I keep hitting the escape button but I am still here!
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Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.
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Continue to be bold, courageous. Try to choose the wisest thing and once you've chosen the wisest thing go out and try to achieve it. Be it.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.
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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.
Maya Angelou
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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