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Maya Angelou
Education helps one...
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Source: In...
The need for...
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Source: I Know Why...
I believe that...
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Source: In
My great hope...
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...
My life has...
My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost...
Listen carefully to...
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of...
There is a...
There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the...
For Africa to...
For Africa to me. . . is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going...
We may encounter...
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Source: In
Nobody, but nobody...
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Source:
-- Maya Angelou,...
We need to...
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
There is a...
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Source:...
Nature has no...
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I...
[Work is] something...
[Work is] something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
Self-pity in its...
Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become...
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...