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Maya Angelou

1928-2014 ,  American poet
Maya AngelouAfrican-American writer, actress, poet, and figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Her best-known works are her six autobiographies (!).
The first of her many marriages was to a Greek sailor, hence the Greek name she chose to keep.

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me “I love you.” … There is an African saying which is: “Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Nothing will work unless you do.

All great achievements require time.


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