Whenever I post a Maya Angelou quote, I don’t like writing much under it because her words are sufficient and have such profound wisdom in them, I feel anything I write would be subliminal. It’s been over a year since Dr. Maya passed away but her words live on as a source of inspiration and that’s the strength of writing. Her poems are a testament of a woman who went through fierce storms but didn’t let them cloud the shine in her rainbow. You read her works like, phenomenal woman and Still I rise and you can almost hear the sass in her voice as you sift through the words, savoring every sentence, every line, every verse.
I chose the above quote because it’s a reminder of something we are in desperate need of, all across the globe. We are in dire need of peace, but in order to attain it, we have to be unified; we have to be color blind; we have to realize we are more alike than we are unalike.
We’ve all got our struggles and just because they are different doesn’t make them any less of a torment than any other persons. I read recently about the importance of writers support groups. There are days as writers where we’ll feel like “we just can’t do it anymore”. You know who’s going to be there in our corners, pushing us on, those writers who have once sailed across the turbulence. They’ve been there and crossed it, it wasn’t easy but they did it. They are the ones who’d help paddle our boats across the storms, being our support systems when our creative juices clog.
A big thank you to everyone who has participated in writer’s Quote this year and has been a source of inspiration to me and also to Colleen from SilverThreading, for hosting this event In the first place. That’s it, and see you in 2016, God willing.
Beautiful quote and message. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you! I’m glad you like it 😄
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beautiful
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Thank you! Glad you like it. 🙂
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Ancient Tombs of Banan
Four very light pebbles attached
to flung-sprung rubber band found
between new laid bricks, retrieved
by mound-viewing haze-gazer reminds
him of the day he gave up that for this.
Tall seeded grasses wave as a group
passes and a small bee buzzes with
interest. The man with no plan sees rice
on the land, chattel by cart, its grain
raked onto black plastic on the road.
Some is still standing, Van Gogh’s yellow
landing between green and smoldering
fields. Ggachis fly by, bales are stacked
high, a rooster lets loose surrounded by
mountains’ shapes feathered in as if Ross
took his two-incher and stroked Payne’s
gray in a jagged horizontal line between
white grading to blue atop, and the
harvester’s fog below. Set free again, he
sits looking at ancient burial homes
so rounded and soft, kept mown, who
knows how, in pairs that excite the
dream of the lonely tractor driver
who precisely gathers the rows. He
leaves tracks for spring’s women to sew.
Here comes a guard atop Folk Museum
to punch his post. He doesn’t look hard
or he’d see the forbidden beer that
mimics the color of one more field’s
cloud that floats by but still notices tears.
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I love these words! We are more alike than unalike 🙂
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Thank You Vonita. This was the first time I came across the quote. I love it too.
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Maya Angelou was one brilliant lady!
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She truly was!!
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This is beautiful! 😊 Thanks for sharing with us 😍
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Thank you for reading! 😄
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This is AMAZING. Thank you so much for giving us a boost! I love Maya’s work and your narrative is so very encouraging.
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Thank you very much! I also am a fan of Mama’s poems. 🙂
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Her writing lives on.
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Hope to read more and more of Writer’s Quotes from you. One of my favourite features on your blog!
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Aw, thank you very much! 😊and ai haven’t seen your posts in a while,
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Yes, I know. Just life… hope to be posting regularly soon 🙂
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Aw, thank you very much! 😊and ai haven’t seen your posts in a while, I hope everything’s alright?
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Yes, everything is OK. Just that, I am moving residence and cities. And my children have school vacations 😀
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I am glad to hear that for I was wondering to!
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Lovely to know I am thought about 🙂
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This one is a wonderful quote.
But, when we see around we happen to find that each one of us has this perception that their struggles are greater than anyone else’s. Just this.
And for that little you wrote below_ I must say. It was more than just a descent attempt with this- ‘cloud the shine in her rainbow’.
You are wonderful too.
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What you said is so true, we always thing our own struggle is the worst thing ever. So are you Ahmed, so are you!
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all her quotes are so inspiring, She was a great woman! Thanks for sharing it my Sis 🙂
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I know right! Reading her works is a pleasure 🙂
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Lovely!! I think I will have to feature her quotes next Tuesday 🙂 Thanks for sharing and love what you wrote to!
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I think you should do it! 🙌 I’d be looking forward to reading it if you do. 🙂
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This is so true! Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thank you for reading it! 😄
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This is really beautiful, such a heart-felt, thoughtful post. I too love all of Dr. Maya’s quotes,she was quite an inspiration!! And we do all have our struggles and to be unified together and understanding of each other should be our goal! Thanks for inspiring me today!! xo
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Thank you very much Deb. Her poems are one of my favorites. Aww, I am glad.
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I guess this is why we can sympathize or empathize becauae we have experienced hurt in one form or the other.
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This is so true! Experience is a wonder teacher 🙂
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