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During those years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.... it was Shakespeare who said, "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." It was a stat...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), African American poet, autobiographer, and performer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 2 (1970).
Remembering her child...
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This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes....
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), African American poet, autobiographer, and performer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 19 (1970).
Remembering the sign...
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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 34 (1969).
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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 environme...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author, poet. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 4 (1969).
Said of one's hometown.
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I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the materi...
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, vol. 1, ch. 18 (1969).
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''Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author, poet. interview in Black Scholar (Jan.-Feb. 1977).
Defining work.
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''There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. Interview in Black Scholar (New York, January-February 1977).
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''While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. repr. In Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989). "Involvement in Black and White," interview, Oregonian (Portland...
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''I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. originally published in Girl About Town (Oct. 13, 1986). Kicking Ass (interview), Conversations with Maya Angelou...
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''The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.''
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Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author. repr. In Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989). "Listening to Maya Angelou," California Living (May 14, 1975).
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