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Maya Angelou
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„Faith is the evidence of the unseen.“
„We grow despite thehorror that we feedupon our owntomorrow.We grow.“
„You don’t have to think about doing the right thing. If you’re for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.“
„Years ago I read a man named Machado de Assis who wrote a book called Dom Casmurro. Machado de Assis is a South American writer — black father, Portuguese mother — writing in 1865, say. I thought the book was very nice. Then I went back and read the book and said, Hmm. I didn’t realize all that was in that book. Then I read it again, and again, and I came to the conclusion that what Machado de Assis had done for me was almost a trick: he had beckoned me onto the beach to watch a sunset. And I had watched the sunset with pleasure. When I turned around to come back in I found that the tide had come in over my head. That’s when I decided to write.“
„Petulant priests, greedycenturions, and one millionincensed gestures standbetween your love and me.“
„I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.“
„p>I have need of a friend.There is one and only onewho will give the airfrom his failing lungsfor my body’s mend.And that one is my love.
„The needs of a society determine its ethics.“
„It is possible and imperative that we discoverA brave and startling truth.“
„My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are? Why can’t you get it the first time?“
„If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.“
„You were a precious pearlHow I loved to see you shine,You were the perfect girl.And you were mine.For a time.For a time.Just for a time.“
„All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.“
„I went to sleep last nightAnd I arose with the dawn,I know that there are othersWho’re still sleeping on,They’ve gone away,You’ve let me stay,I want to thank You.“
„A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song“
„Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.“
„Years ago I read a man named Machado de Assis who wrote a book called Dom Casmurro.“
„In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.“
„Mother’s life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.“
„My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.“
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