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Maya Angelou

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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.


— Maya Angelou


#gratitude #maya-angelou #oprah #faith

I sustain myself with the love of family.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational #family

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.


— Maya Angelou


#love

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.


— Maya Angelou


#live-in-the-moment #present

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


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.


— Maya Angelou


#earning #life

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.


— Maya Angelou


#inspirational

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.


— Maya Angelou


#love #lovelessness #love

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.


— Maya Angelou


#courage #courage






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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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