Maya Angelou

(1928–2014) · American Poet & Author

Was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

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Maya Angelou

(1928–2014) · American Poet & Author

Was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.
Life loves the liver of it.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

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