The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
MAYA ANGELOUThe idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
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I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
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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’ll rise!
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
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Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.
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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.
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To those who are given much, much is expected.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
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