Category: poet
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I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth
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Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Alexander Pope
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Virgil
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
Maya Angelou
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
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I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Victor Hugo