All Maya Angelou Quotes
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
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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.
Maya Angelou
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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.
Maya Angelou
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
Maya Angelou
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