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  1. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    The fog wasn't simply the steamy vapors off the bay caught and penned in by hills, but a soft breath of anonymity that shrouded and cushioned the bashful traveler.
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  2. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.
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  3. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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  4. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    I was basically good. Not understood, and not even liked, but even so, just, and better than just. I was merciful.
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  5. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    Preach it, I say preach it.
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  6. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    Of all the needs {there are none imaginary} a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.
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  7. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
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  8. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness."
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  9. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.
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  10. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.
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  11. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
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  12. Maya Angelou _ I Know Why the Caged Bird

    Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.
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