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Letter "M" » Maya Angelou Quotes
«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.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
Country
| Keywords:
Africa, arrived, glamorous, historical, No Place to Go
«All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, bogey, capped, caps, dislikes, early childhood, encountered, face value, heroes, intensities, labeled, masks, penetrable, races, stocking, stockings, tactic, tactics, the town, town, unanswered
«Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
breaking, break of day, give birth, lift, lift up, The Dream
«I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted»
«The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.»
«Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity to be otherwise»
«I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
brotherhood, mutuality, parentage, sibling, siblings, sisterhood, sisters, work at
«kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect»
«I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.»
«We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and»
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