Category: poet
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Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‘Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.’ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.
Maya Angelou
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron
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Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.
Maya Angelou
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
Maya Angelou
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Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‘I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.’
Maya Angelou
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman