Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

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Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School.

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He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

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I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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