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_Published 2014-05-30. A collection of the poet and author's most memorable speeches, poems and interviews_


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## Transcript

I am grateful, to have been loved. And to be loved now. And to be able to love. Because that liberates. Love liberates. Here on the pulse of this new day, you may have the grace to look up and out and into your sister's eye, and into your brothers' face your country and say simply, very simply, with hope, good morning. I know what the cage bids feel for me. When the sun is bright, on the upland slopes when the wind blows soft through the springing grass and the river flows like a sheet of glass. I say it's in the reach of my arms. The span of my hips. The stride of my step. The curl of my lips.

I'm a woman, phenomenally. People have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. Every one of us needs to say to our children, children, this is your world. Come, come out, stand out, earn it. And we have a chance to be rainbows in their clouds. It amazing. The power we have, each of us, young, middle age, or like me upper middle age. [ LAUGH ] I don't know how much longer I will be around, or how much longer. I want to write about, people I've known and times I've lived and things I've done. But if there is time, I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, Maya, Maya, it's time.

I'd rather be writing a poem or trying to write some music, or an autobiography.

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