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Maya Angelou Poems | Quotes | Articles

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Maya Angelou poems, biography, quotes, examples of poetry, articles, essays and more. The best Maya Angelou resource with comprehensive poet information, a list of poems, short poems, quotations, best poems, poet's works and more.

Maya Angelou Biography...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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Quote Left In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. Quote Right
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Quote Left For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. Quote Right
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Quote Left Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Quote Right
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Quote Left At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. Quote Right
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Quote Left Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Quote Right
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