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Maya Angelou
There's a world...
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
If one is...
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Talent is like...
Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep...
The thorn from...
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more...
Children's talent to...
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Source: I...
The quality of...
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when...
I made the...
I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over...
There is no...
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
Source: From a...
The horizon leans...
The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.
I try to...
I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the...
All of childhood's...
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey...
Life loves the...
Life loves the liver of it.
Source: The Black Scholar Interviews Maya Angelou, Jan...
A bird doesn't...
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Bitterness is like...
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all...
Black women have...
Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the...
Each of us...
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead and . . . if the future road looms...
The most called-upon...
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Source: The...
Here on the...
Here on the pulse of this new day,
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,...
I speak to...
I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition -- about what we can endure, dream,...
I love to...
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick...