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Maya Angelou

Birthday: April 04, 1928
Category: American Poet
Type: Poet
National: American

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Achievement brings its own anticlimax....

All great achievements require time....

Any book that helps a child to form a habit...

As far as I knew white women were never lonely,...

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in...

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But...

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives....

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because...

Effective action is always unjust....

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact....

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if...

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate...

I believe that every person is born with talent....

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are...

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates...

I long, as does every human being, to be at...

I love to see a young girl go out and...

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people...

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a...

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform...

If we lose love and self respect for each other,...

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't...

If you find it in your heart to care for...

If you have only one smile in you give it...

It is time for parents to teach young people early...

Life loves the liver of it....

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told:...

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody...

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates...

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of...

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space...

My great hope is to laugh as much as I...

My life has been one great big joke, a dance...

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance...

Nothing will work unless you do....

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born...

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all...

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the...

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a...

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer'...

The ache for home lives in all of us, the...

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a...

The idea is to write it so that people hear...

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of...

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't...

There is a very fine line between loving life and...

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story...

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts...

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make...

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be...

While I know myself as a creation of God, I...

While the rest of the world has been improving technology,...

Words mean more than what is set down on paper....