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" I got my own back. "
Maya Angelou
My Own
Got
Back
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" I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. "
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" Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. "
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" I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. "
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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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" I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. "
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" I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. "
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" Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.' "
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" If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity. "
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" There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. "
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" I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues. "
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" If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. "
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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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" I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. "
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" If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same. "
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" How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! "
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" I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything. "
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" If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity. "
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" Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. "
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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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" All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. "
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" For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. "
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" I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' "
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" There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. "
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