My 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.
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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 AngelouCourage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without c…
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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