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
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself
I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.
Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.
Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
All great achievements require time.