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Maya Angelou

" All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy. "

Music , Expectation

related quotes

" Out of the huts of history's shameI riseUp from a past that's rooted in painI riseI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that's wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI riseI rise. "

poem

" Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side. "

Diversity , poem

" You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I‚Äôll rise. "

poem

" Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals. "

Language

" In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity. "

Culture

" Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. "

Anger

" You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for. "

Greatness , Life

" In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit. "

Ambition

" I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh. "

Laughter

" When rain comes finally, washing away a low sky of muddy ocher, we who could not control the phenomenon are pressed into relief. The near-occult feeling: The face of being witness to the end of the world gives way to tangible things. Even if the succeeding sensations are not common, they are at least not mysterious. "

Rain

" We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. "

competitions , boxing

" Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying "

Poetry

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