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Maya Angelou

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The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?


— Maya Angelou


#life #mistakes #right #life

Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass


— Maya Angelou


#inspriational #life #humor

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape


— Maya Angelou


#humor #humor

Yet it is only love which sets us free.


— Maya Angelou


#love

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness.


— Maya Angelou


#children-s-reminiscences #inspirational #inspirational

When people show you who they are, believe them.


— Maya Angelou


#ethereal #love #people #show #love

You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance. Lost, injured, hurt by chance. I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed.... Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...


— Maya Angelou


#change

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.


— Maya Angelou


#heartache #memories #death

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.


— Maya Angelou


#attitude

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.


— Maya Angelou


#day #life #time #beauty






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As Gillespie states "If 1968 was a year of great pain loss and sadness it was also the year when America first witnessed the breadth and depth of Maya Angelou's spirit and creative genius". As of 2008 Maya Angelou owned two homes in Winston-Salem North Carolina and one in Harlem full of her "growing library" of books Maya Angelou has collected throughout her life artwork collected over the span of many decades and well-stocked kitchens. Angelou has one son Guy whose birth was described in her first autobiography one grandson and two young great-grandchildren and according to Gillespie a large group of friends and extended family.

She is respected as a spokesperson of Black people and women and her works have been considered a defense of Black culture. : /ˈmaɪ. Maya Angelou (pron.

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