If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Maya Angelou
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About Maya Angelou
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. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou's series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the ag…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Maya AngelouMy great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Nothing will work unless you do.
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.
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.
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 plac…
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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.
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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 fr…
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
All great achievements require time.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggl…
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
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.
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.
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.