Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelouwas an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, tells of her...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth4 April 1928
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
Maya Angelou quotes about
If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased.
No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.
Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.
I was thinking about that, about the journeys in the film, journey to the roots, journey to the heart. We're all on journeys.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
There is no place where God is not.
It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
When we know better, we do better.