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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.
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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. Go to Quote / Comment
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. Go to Quote / Comment
What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself Go to Quote / Comment
You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. Go to Quote / Comment
Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas, Go to Quote / Comment