Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelouwas an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, tells of her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 April 1928
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.
Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.
If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.
Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth.
I know why the caged bird sings.
Don't let the man bring you down.
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape
My mother raised me, and then freed me,