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    Maya Angelou

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    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. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #as far as #black #books #desired #except

    My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #almost #been #big #choke #dance

    The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #home #lives #place #questioned #safe

    One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #be kind #born #cannot #consistency #courage

    History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #cannot #courage #despite #faced #history

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


    — Maya Angelou

    #deeper meaning #down #human #human voice #infuse

    Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #back #between #could #crawl #curl

    If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #each #finally #how #lose #love

    Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #children #endure #ignorance #stems #talent

    While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. ↗


    — Maya Angelou

    #am #creation #else #everyone #everything






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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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