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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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don Go to Quote / Comment
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Go to Quote / Comment
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Go to Quote / Comment
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Go to Quote / Comment
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well. Go to Quote / Comment