The Marginalian - On Maya Angelou's birthday, hear her timeless poem "A Brave and Startling Truth" (inspired by Carl Sagan), which flew to space, then returned to remind us who we are –
![Brittany Page on Twitter: "Excerpt from “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou, but click here to read the whole thing: https://t.co/2CGLd8e3BB https://t.co/MDUkHyLB19" / Twitter Brittany Page on Twitter: "Excerpt from “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou, but click here to read the whole thing: https://t.co/2CGLd8e3BB https://t.co/MDUkHyLB19" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqTCJ2hVsAErch9.jpg)
Brittany Page on Twitter: "Excerpt from “A Brave and Startling Truth” by Maya Angelou, but click here to read the whole thing: https://t.co/2CGLd8e3BB https://t.co/MDUkHyLB19" / Twitter
Write with Kate Kunkel - We have infinite possibilities .... As writers, as humans. Maya Angelou's "A Brave and Startling Truth" is as inspirational as anything I could pass on this Monday
![Jacqueline Novogratz on Twitter: "To love each other requires loving ourselves. Truly loving ourselves requires that we love each other….This is just an excerpt of Maya Angelou's remarkable poem A Brave and Jacqueline Novogratz on Twitter: "To love each other requires loving ourselves. Truly loving ourselves requires that we love each other….This is just an excerpt of Maya Angelou's remarkable poem A Brave and](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ed2QPDBWoAEb7LM.png)
Jacqueline Novogratz on Twitter: "To love each other requires loving ourselves. Truly loving ourselves requires that we love each other….This is just an excerpt of Maya Angelou's remarkable poem A Brave and
Maria Popova on Instagram: “On Maya Angelou's birthday, and to celebrate #NationalPoetryMonth, hear her superb poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," which flew to space…”
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