“I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.”
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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 was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.”
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“Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.”
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“It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.”
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“I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.”
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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'”
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“At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'Tha...”
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“The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.”
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“In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.”
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“I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.”
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“Life loves the liver of it.”
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“I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.”
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“I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.”
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“One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.”
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“If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.”
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“Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important....”
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“I'm very, very serious - I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedde...”
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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.”
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“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”
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“Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.”
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“I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.”
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