Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences.

"Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."

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"As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else."

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"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

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"I want you to write down your blessings."

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"I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you."

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"That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."

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