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Maya Angelou

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


— Maya Angelou


#love #trust #inspirational

When you know better you do better.


— Maya Angelou


#intelligence #knowledge #wisdom #education

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.


— Maya Angelou


#love #trust #courage

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational #self-determination #change

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.


— Maya Angelou


#music

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.


— Maya Angelou


#book #child #continuing #deep #form

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.


— Maya Angelou


#let-go #live #learn

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.


— Maya Angelou


#different

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational






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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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