I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou View this quote
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace. Maya Angelou
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Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise. Maya Angelou
People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts. Maya Angelou
People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and ‘perks.’ We don’t always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they’re needed, there’s not much else to do except let them do the work. Maya Angelou
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. Maya Angelou
Poetry gave me back my voice. Maya Angelou
Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement. Maya Angelou
Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own. Maya Angelou
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Maya Angelou
Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. Maya Angelou
American poet and author
April 4th, 1928 - May 28th, 2014