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Maya Angelou

Love, Memory, and Kinship

Love, touch, remembrance, aging, family feeling, passing time, and intimate address.
Touched by An AngelWe, unaccustomed to courage / exiles from delight / live coiled in shells of loneliness / until love
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RefusalBeloved, / In what other lives or lands / Have I known your lips / Your Hands / Your Laughter brave
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RemembranceYour hands easy / weight, teasing the bees / hived in my hair, your smile at the / slope of my cheek
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Passing TimeYour skin like dawn / Mine like musk / One paints the beginning / of a certain end. / The other, the
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When You ComeWhen you come to me, unbidden, / Beckoning me / To long-ago rooms, / Where memories lie. / Offering
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MenWhen I was young, I used to / Watch behind the curtains / As men walked up and down the street. Wino
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Old Folks laughThey have spent their / content of simpering, / holding their lips this / and that way, winding / th
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AloneLying, thinking / Last night / How to find my soul a home / Where water is not thirsty / And bread l
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End of Love, Memory, and Kinship

Alone

Keep readingMaya Angelou: Love, Memory, and Kinship

by Maya Angelou

Lying, thinking Last night How to find my soul a home Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone I came up with one thing And I don't believe I'm wrong That nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone. There are some millionaires With money they can't use Their wives run round like banshees Their children sing the blues They've got expensive doctors To cure their hearts of stone. But nobody No, nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone. Now if you listen closely I'll tell you what I know Storm clouds are gathering The wind is gonna blow The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, 'Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone. Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.
Written by
Maya Angelou
1928-2014 / Female / American
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Written by
Maya Angelou
1928-2014 / Female / American
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