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I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.

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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

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Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

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I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

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If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

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I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

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I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.

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Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

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I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!

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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 4th, 1928

Died: May 28th, 2014

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