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Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.
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 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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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.
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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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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.
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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
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jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.
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It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
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I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
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The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
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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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If a person - any human being - is told often enough, You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you, the person finally begins to believe it.
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If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?
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You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
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Give yourself time just to be with yourself.
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I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.
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