Comprehensive information about Maya Angelou including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning African American poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 8 1928 and died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on May 28, 2014. Angelou was also a dancer, an actress and a singer. This educational Maya Angelou resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. Go to Quote / Comment
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. Go to Quote / Comment
The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. Go to Quote / Comment
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers. Go to Quote / Comment
Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway. Go to Quote / Comment