Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.
Maya AngelouElimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
Maya AngelouTo be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
Maya AngelouAll riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.
Maya AngelouFighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.
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