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
It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.
The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.
No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.
Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.
Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.
Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.
There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends
They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.
We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.
You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.