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Maya Angelou

1928 - 2014

Essayist, American Memoirist, Poet and Civil Rights Activist

Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.

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People will forget what you said... but people will never forget how you made them feel

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Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

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No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

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Success is loving life and daring to live it.

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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

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All great achievements require time.

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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness, all the good things.

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I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.

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

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To those who are given much, much is expected.

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The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library.

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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

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I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

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

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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

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About Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou’s literary legacy is anchored by her groundbreaking seven-part autobiographical series, starting with the masterpiece I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which revolutionized the memoir genre by exploring childhood racism, trauma, and identity. Her subsequent memoirs, including Gather Together in My Name and Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas, chronicle her struggles with early single motherhood and her entry into the performing arts. The series concludes with powerful historical narratives like The Heart of a Woman and All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, detailing her activism in the Civil Rights Movement and her transformative years as an expatriate in Ghana

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