Female Quotes by Maya Angelou

8 Female quotes by Maya Angelou

Angelou’s verses on women pulse with lyrical grace, each a compact echo of her profound empathy.

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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It…

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We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups.…

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I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

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“She was born poor and powerless in a land where power is money and money is adored. Born black in a land…

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The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.…

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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost…

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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is…

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A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn…

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I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think…

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You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

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Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or…

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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you…

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“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,…

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and…

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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a…

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take…

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