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Maya Angelou

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If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.


— Maya Angelou


#metaphor

Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational #learning #race #education

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.


— Maya Angelou


#especially #fifteen #had #honorable #life

Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take buy by the moments that take your breath away.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational #inspirational

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.


— Maya Angelou


#letter-to-my-daughter #death

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.


— Maya Angelou


#letter-to-my-daughter #courage

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.


— Maya Angelou


#dreams

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.


— Maya Angelou


#inferiority-complex #education

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.


— Maya Angelou


#education #knowledge #life-lessons #understanding #education






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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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