Poet Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou Quotes

Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
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.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
I know why the caged bird sings.

Write your comment about Maya Angelou

Levi Putnam: She is a very inspiring person to me she makes beautiful poems talking about things most people wont. She talks about her childhood, she writes in two different perspectives, herself as a child, and herself as an adult.
Oloya Bryan : She is a legendary poet and one of the finest the world have ever had.
Ntebaleng: She is a great poet. She writes from the heart and shares her own stories with the world. Such an incredible writer
BW Cooray: A great poet .
Richard C Martin: Words and thoughts that I think are beautiful, and wish they were mine.
arriyonna: she has a gifth
Peter Rham Milimo: Very wise and educative
MA Zakari Brainbox: A Gifted Poet.
Wegolonyo Wod Ker: Wow. . .infinity, in her gown yet the world must hold. Maya what a mighty pen from thy heart shall blood forever more. High regards!
Zeb Nicklin: Birds have wings suppressed so sings
depressed and leans on Bill Withers & Sam Cooke ilk
that A change gonna come before too long
same old song rhythm & blues diff day same issues
Let it be open the door aint no words of wisdom
you lining u the prisons
Listen to Bob & see Stevie innervisions!
Jenny Lovato
Johan Herman Wessel

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Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poem
Night-Scene In Genoa
 by Felicia Dorothea Hemans

In Genoa, when the sunset gave
Its last warm purple to the wave,
No sound of war, no voice of fear,
Was heard, announcing danger near:
Though deadliest foes were there, whose hate
But slumber'd till its hour of fate,
Yet calmly, at the twilight's close,
Sunk the wide city to repose.
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