“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”
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Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and 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. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she earned the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Source: Wikipedia
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“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”
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“I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.”
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“If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.”
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“I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time...”
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“There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.”
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“If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we te...”
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“In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.”
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“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.”
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“I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.”
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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...”
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“I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.”
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“I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.”
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“If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could da...”
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“Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!”
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“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.”
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“I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.”
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“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
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“Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are af...”
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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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