Maya Angelou

1928-2014 / Female / American
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A ConceitGive me your hand / Make room for me / to lead and follow
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AloneLying, thinking / Last night / How to find my soul a home
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I know why the caged bird singsA free bird leaps on the back / Of the wind and floats downstream / Till the current ends and dips his wing
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InsomniacThere are some nights when / sleep plays coy, / aloof and disdainful.
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MenWhen I was young, I used to / Watch behind the curtains / As men walked up and down the street. Wino men, old men.
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Million Man March PoemThe night has been long, / The wound has been deep, / The pit has been dark,
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Momma Welfare RollHer arms semaphore fat triangles, / Pudgy HANDS bunched on layered hips / Where bones idle under years of fatback
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Old Folks laughThey have spent their / content of simpering, / holding their lips this
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Passing TimeYour skin like dawn / Mine like musk / One paints the beginning
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Phenomenal WomanPretty women wonder where my secret lies. / I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size / But when I start to tell them,
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