Category: poet
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By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
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I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‘You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.’
Maya Angelou
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Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.
Maya Angelou
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Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
William Wordsworth
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake