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It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.


Maya Angelou

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MAYA ANGELOU Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
MAYA ANGELOU As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
MAYA ANGELOU If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
MAYA ANGELOU The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
MAYA ANGELOU The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...
MAYA ANGELOU We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
MAYA ANGELOU I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOU It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
MAYA ANGELOU The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
MAYA ANGELOU I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
MAYA ANGELOU I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
MAYA ANGELOU Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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