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Maya Angelou

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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.


— Maya Angelou


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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.


— Maya Angelou


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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.


— Maya Angelou


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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.


— Maya Angelou


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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.


— Maya Angelou


#feel #forget #how #i #learned

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.


— Maya Angelou


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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.


— Maya Angelou


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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.


— Maya Angelou


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Effective action is always unjust.


— Maya Angelou


#always #effective #unjust

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.


— Maya Angelou


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As Gillespie states "If 1968 was a year of great pain loss and sadness it was also the year when America first witnessed the breadth and depth of Maya Angelou's spirit and creative genius". As of 2008 Maya Angelou owned two homes in Winston-Salem North Carolina and one in Harlem full of her "growing library" of books Maya Angelou has collected throughout her life artwork collected over the span of many decades and well-stocked kitchens. Angelou has one son Guy whose birth was described in her first autobiography one grandson and two young great-grandchildren and according to Gillespie a large group of friends and extended family.

She is respected as a spokesperson of Black people and women and her works have been considered a defense of Black culture. : /ˈmaɪ. Maya Angelou (pron.

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