"Just like moons and suns, With certainty..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
“Whether you are happy or whether you are sad, it is wise to remember you are really in process.”
“Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.”
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“Gather quicklyOut of darknessAll the songs you knowAnd throw them at the sunBefore they meltLike snow.”
“O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.”