Maya Angelou Quotes
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
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I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.
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I went to sleep last night and I arose with the dawn, I know that there are others who're still sleeping on, They've gone away, You've let me stay, I want to thank You.
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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
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Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.
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I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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I got my own back.
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I created myself. I have taught myself so much.
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One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
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I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
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Visit us again, Savior.Your children, burdened with disbelief, blinded by a patina of wisdom, carom down this vale of fear. We cry for you although we have lost your name.
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I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.
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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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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.
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'Glory Falls'
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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.