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  1. Maya Angelou

    You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may tread me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wellsPumping in my living room.Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll rise.Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops.Weakened by my soulful cries.Does my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard'Cause I laugh like I've got gold minesDiggin' in my own back yard.You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise.Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surpriseThat I dance like I've got diamondsAt the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shameI riseUp from a past that's rooted in painI riseI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that's wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I ris
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  2. Libba Bray _ The Diviners

    Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.
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  3. Bill Bryson

    Unluckier still was Guillaume Le Gentil, whose experiences are wonderfully summarized by Timothy Ferris in Coming of Age in the Milky Way . Le Gentil set off from France a year ahead of time to observe the transit {of Venus} from India, but various setbacks left him still at sea on the day of the transit-just about the worst place to be since steady measurements were impossible on a pitching ship
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  4. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ We Were Eight Years in Power:

    And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or stranded in the doldrums of America, some of them treading and some of them drowning, never feeling and never forgetting. The most precious thing I had then is the most precious thing I have now-my own curiosity. That is the thing I knew, even in the classroom, they could not take from me. That is the thing that buoyed me and eventually plucked me from the sea.
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  5. Mark Helprin _ In Sunlight and in Shadow

    Because two propositions can be true at once," he said. "Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define ourselves in dying, which is," he indicated by motioning with his head toward the arena, "what this is. Give us at least that.
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  6. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.
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  7. Jodi Picoult _ My Sister's Keeper

    The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
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  8. Margaret George _ The Memoirs of Cleopatra

    You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.
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  9. Robert Jordan _ The Fires of Heaven

    The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
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  10. Sophie Kinsella _ The Undomestic Goddess

    There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
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  11. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.
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  12. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
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