I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a … - Maya Angelou

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Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.

Maya Angelou

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U. S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

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I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

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