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
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.
You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.