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ancianita

(36,017 posts) Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:15 PM Sep 2020

Maya Angelou on Facing Evil

"We need the courage to create ourselves daily. To be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily...
I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution individually and collectively is exciting, honorable... "

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Maya Angelou on Facing Evil (Original Post) ancianita Sep 2020 OP

Thank you so much for posting this. Sadly relevant in these perilous times. niyad Sep 2020 #1

The way I see it, there's never sadnesss when truth is needed. I'm grateful that we have ancianita Sep 2020 #2

niyad

(113,229 posts)

1. Thank you so much for posting this. Sadly relevant in these perilous times.

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Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:05 PM

Sep 2020

ancianita

(36,017 posts)

2. The way I see it, there's never sadnesss when truth is needed. I'm grateful that we have

Reply to niyad (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:10 PM

Sep 2020

ancestors to teach us to be strong. There's no greater part of America to do that than Black Americans.

And Maya Angelou is among their countless great ones.

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