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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
American Poet
Born: Apr 4, 1928
Died: May 28, 2014
Life Love Me People Time You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman E. E. Cummings
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity. Maya Angelou
Creativity Think Everybody I Think Born Come Glory Trailing Us Each Creator Each One
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever. Maya Angelou
Me Ignorance People Stupidity Word Somebody Feeling Clever Rich Other Carry Folks Pretty About Never Had Weight True Talking Because Around Were Wanted Really Racists Use Who Belittle
That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.' Maya Angelou
You Yourself Gift Wake Up I Can Give Prevent Becoming Doing Wake Up Anybody Biggest Ill Who Aware
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Maya Angelou
Love World Girl Young Out I Love See Go Grab Young Girl
A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone. Maya Angelou
You Struggle Racism Yourself Dangerous Too Much Will Black Country Salt Think Too Everyone I Think Must Betterment Also Knowing Up Familiar Person Places Much Many Grows Tongue
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine. Maya Angelou
Blessing Son People Birth Mine Has-Been Ability Greatest Greatest Blessing Been Children Turn Next
Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. Maya Angelou
Will Sister Other Brother See Brother And Sister Blacks Parity Clear Until Very Whites Each
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided. Maya Angelou
Truth I Am Right Thing Guided Make Policy Knows How Am Expedient Going The Right Thing Us Popular Company Each Right Thing
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers. Maya Angelou
Good Natural Remember Strangers Crises Neighbors Biases Forget Human Human Beings While Little Prejudices Help Little While Beings Awhile
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things. Maya Angelou
Values Our Direct Somehow Come Material Material Things Blood Flesh Belief Things Bones
I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something. Maya Angelou
Try Before Think I Think Something Prevent Wisest Cure Illness Thing
I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them. Maya Angelou
Welcome Somebody Out Carry Guns Put Come Like House Around Mat Going Stop Want Them
Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again. Maya Angelou
Success Work Good Day Freedom Morning You Wake Up Achieve Job Free Long Poet Fighting Christian All Day Muslim Kind Some Struggling Buddhist Towards Over Like Still Go Wake Up Done Being Again Next Next Morning Zen Level Start Jew Sleep
The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight. Maya Angelou
Gay You Man Woman Black White Has-Been Poetry Written Read Been Hispanic Straight Each
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun! Maya Angelou
You Will Older Believe I Believe I Believe That Dare Wiser Because Get Just Fun
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous. Maya Angelou
Love Relationship Love Is First Young Borders First Love Loss Painful Ludicrous
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. Maya Angelou
Character Respect Struggle Acceptance Met Inevitable Distaste Outcome Enthusiastic Emerges Fact Seldom Adult Accepted Female Amazement Won Survivors American Often Formidable Even Deserves
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business. Maya Angelou
Good Business Mother Lover Christian Good Mother Muslim Buddhist Buddy Like Friend Trying Working Serious Good Friend Jew
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely. Maya Angelou
Me Man Rude Out Tell Would Be A Man Charles Charles Dickens Could Arkansas Town Talk Were South Impressed Dickens Up Curse Grew Little Mean Really Whites Who Village Early
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. Maya Angelou
You Small Things Courage Yourself Small Develop Pick Weight Like Without Doing Up Just Want Preparing Things
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything. Maya Angelou
Beautiful Most Beautiful Will Seven Though About Remains Most Around Manage Eight Anything Languages English Mumble
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. Maya Angelou
Time Man Woman Old Everybody Everyone Presidents Open Accessible Child Person Information Available Old Person Should Belongs Universities
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still. Maya Angelou
Life Sometimes Try My Life Long Trembling Dared Has-Been Daring Still Been Loves Many Liver Believing Things
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody. Maya Angelou
People Language Melody Dare Admire Take Understand English Who
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. Maya Angelou
Sometimes Finally Worst Some Poetry River Mississippi Mississippi River Wrote Got West Right
I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.' Maya Angelou
Me You People Word Will Black Poison Sit Say I Can Put Know Because Person Oh Room Meant Use Used Now Belittle
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