Tag: Maya Angelou
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One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
Maya Angelou
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou
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Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.
Maya Angelou
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At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.
Maya Angelou
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
Maya Angelou
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Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.
Maya Angelou
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I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.
Maya Angelou
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I’ve conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! ! I’ve sang and danced at La Scala!
Maya Angelou
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The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
Maya Angelou
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
Maya Angelou