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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS BY MAYA ANGELOU, 1969
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“The act of writing is a way to create another world in language, a dwelling place for the psyche wherein the chaos of the external world is transformed, shaped into a made thing, and ordered. It is an act of reclamation. And resistance: the soul sings for justice and the song is poetry.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
“To have dominion over oneself, to be the sovereign of the nation of the self, one must be the writer of the story.”
― The House of Being
― The House of Being
“the betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
― Notes of a Native Son
― Notes of a Native Son
“Live so that the world will need you,
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
Daily tread the path of light,
Keep a bag of sunshine with you,
Be a jewel pure and bright.”
― Poetic Pearls
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