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Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning African American poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 8 1928 and died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 28, 2014. Angelou was also a dancer, an actress and a singer.


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Quote Left At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Quote Left All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. Quote Right
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Quote Left Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Quote Right
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Quote Left You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things