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Maya Angelou

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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


#comfort #home #protection #safety #security

To those who are given much, much is expected.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.


— Maya Angelou


#maya-angelou #defeat

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.


— Maya Angelou


#between #fine #fine line #greedy #life

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.


— Maya Angelou


#alone #even #genders #groups #ignorance

Don't let the man bring you down.


— Maya Angelou


#freedom

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational #faith

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.


— Maya Angelou


#decisions

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.


— Maya Angelou


#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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