Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.


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Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
MAYA ANGELOU
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
MAYA ANGELOU
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
MAYA LIN
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
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I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
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The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
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I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war ec...
MAYA LIN
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOU
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
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We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU
All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
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I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
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Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
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