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Maya Angelou

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In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.


— Maya Angelou


#perfect-fit #love

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.


— Maya Angelou


#believing #cynic #gone #knowing #nothing

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.


— Maya Angelou


#freedom

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.


— Maya Angelou


#senseless-worry #family

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.


— Maya Angelou


#anybody #happen #like #love #love is

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.


— Maya Angelou


#poetry #womanhood #confidence

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.


— Maya Angelou


#life

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


#life

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.


— Maya Angelou


#love






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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