Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition -- about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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If they want to learn how to live life right
they ought to study me on Saturday night.
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Here on the pulse of this new day, You may have the grace to look up and out; And into your sister's eyes, into; Your brother's face, your country; And say simply, Very simply, With hope, Good Morning.
Maya Angelou
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