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Maya Angelou

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.


— Maya Angelou


#bitterness #burns #cancer #clean #eats

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.


— Maya Angelou


#sense-of-humor #humor

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.


— Maya Angelou


#accept #courage #cry #done #get

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.


— Maya Angelou


#barriers #destination #fences #full #hope

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.


— Maya Angelou


#growing-up #age

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.


— Maya Angelou


#self-assurance #strength

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.


— Maya Angelou


#hatred #problems

We need much less than we think we need.


— Maya Angelou


#need

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.


— Maya Angelou


#parents-and-children #family

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.


— Maya Angelou


#friendship






About Maya Angelou

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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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