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Quotes from I Shall Not Be Moved — Maya Angelou

1928–2014 United States

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5 quotes

Petulant priests, greedy
centurions, and one million
incensed gestures stand
between your love and me.

I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

Visit us again, Savior. Your children, burdened with
disbelief, blinded by a patina
of wisdom,
carom down this vale of
fear. We cry for you
although we have lost
your name.

I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

We grow despite the
horror that we feed
upon our own
tomorrow.
We grow.

I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

Glory falls around us
as we sob
a dirge of
desolation on the Cross
and hatred is the ballast of
the rock

I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

I have need of a friend. There is one and only one
who will give the air
from his failing lungs
for my body's mend. And that one is my love.

I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maya Angelou (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.