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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

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Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Maya Angelou

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Uncategorized
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. Uncategorized
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Uncategorized
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/maya_angelou_2.html#VxwGhc1L41vRpw0u.99 Uncategorized
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Uncategorized
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. Uncategorized
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Uncategorized
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Uncategorized
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. Uncategorized
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. Uncategorized
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. Uncategorized
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. Uncategorized
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Uncategorized
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Uncategorized
While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. Uncategorized
All great achievements require time. Uncategorized
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Uncategorized
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Uncategorized
Nothing will work unless you do. Uncategorized
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope. Uncategorized