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«If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.»
«I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.»
«I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no»
Author: Maya Angelou
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Poet)
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About:
Electricity,
Heart,
Talent
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Keywords:
cathedral,
electricity,
electrocute,
electrocutes,
lamp,
lighting-up,
light up,
plug,
plugging,
plug in,
pump,
pumping,
pumps
«Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.»
«We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.»
«Some critics will write»
«The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
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Poet)
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Keywords:
blood,
bush,
bushes,
deeply,
draws,
nourished,
One Blood,
planted,
pricked,
pricking,
pricks,
prune,
pruned,
prunes,
pruning,
The Bush,
thorn
«As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.»
«How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!»
«There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.»