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Maya Angelou Biography

Maya Angelou (/ˈændʒəloʊ/ ( listen); born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Vitality, Encounters, May, Encountering, Defeats

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Communication, Different, Mean, Writing

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Book, Loneliness, Lonely, Men, Women

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.

Eye, Heart, Love, Love You, Wonders

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Created, Creative, Frequently, Inspiring, Invent, Writing

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Dream, Facts, Inchly, Life, Sented, Unreal

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Adventure, Art, Bring, Frequently, Life, Realize

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

Church, Human, Right, Temple, Temples, Trying

I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

God, Faith, Christian, Child, Grandmother, Internalized

A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

Country, Explanation, Fighting, Quietly, Refused, Son

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Attitude, Comfortable, Forgiveness, Peace, Toward

Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

Destinations, Education, Pleasure, Sake, Travel, Unalike

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

Bounds, Mean, Wheelchairs

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

Great Love, Laughing, Offer, Think, Thinking, Weep

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

Cancer, Know, Positivity, Success

The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming.

Energy, Fascinating, Giving, Ideas, Realize, Thinking

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Facts, Life, Peace, Truth, Wisdom, World

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Gay, Men, Poetry, White, Woman, Written

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

Book, Down, Lynne, Next, Table, Tables

Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.

Ears, Long, Loved, Thinking, Whole

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